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Harb. & Nav. Code, § 308 · Chapter 4. Offenses

Harb. & Nav. Code, § 308

Verbatim from the official edition

Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)

A person who moors a vessel of any kind, to a buoy or beacon, except a designated mooring buoy, placed in the waters of the state by authority of the United States Coast Guard, or who in any manner hangs on to the same, with a vessel, or who willfully removes, damages, or destroys any such buoy or beacon, or any part of the buoy or beacon, or who cuts down, removes, damages, or destroys a beacon erected on land in this state by that authority, is, for every offense, guilty of a misdemeanor.

Notes and commentary — not statutory text

History

Amended by Stats. 2009, Ch. 610, Sec. 26. (SB 717) Effective January 1, 2010.

Source of truth

Edition
As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
Official file
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=HNC&sectionNum=308.
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