Bus. & Prof. Code, § 19942 · Article 11. Penalties
Bus. & Prof. Code, § 19942
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
(a) Any person who willfully fails to report, pay, or truthfully account for and pay over any license fee imposed by this chapter, or who willfully attempts in any manner to evade or defeat the license fee or payment thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail, by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000), or by both that imprisonment and fine.
(b) Any person who willfully violates any of the provisions of this chapter for which a penalty is not expressly provided, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by renumbering Section 19933 by Stats. 2002, Ch. 738, Sec. 99. Effective January 1, 2003.
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