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Pen. Code, § 16580 · Division 2. DEFINITIONS

Pen. Code, § 16580

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

(a) Except as stated in subdivision (c), the following provisions are continuations of provisions that were included in former Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 12000) of Title 2 of Part 4, entitled “Firearms,” when that chapter was repealed by the Deadly Weapons Recodification Act of 2010:

(1) Sections 12001 to 12022.95, inclusive.

(2) Sections 16120 to 16140, inclusive.

(3) Subdivision (b) of Section 16170, to the extent it continues former Sections 12001, 12060, 12078, 12085, and 12088.8, as those sections read when they were repealed by the Deadly Weapons Recodification Act of 2010.

(4) Subdivision (c) of Section 16170.

(5) Section 16190.

(6) Sections 16220 to 16240, inclusive.

(7) Section 16250, to the extent it continues former Section 12001, as that section read when it was repealed by the Deadly Weapons Recodification Act of 2010.

(8) Section 16260.

(9) Sections 16320 to 16340, inclusive.

(10) Section 16360.

(11) Sections 16400 to 16410, inclusive.

(12) Section 16430.

(13) Section 16450, to the extent it continues former Sections 12060 and 12086, as those sections read when they were repealed by the Deadly Weapons Recodification Act of 2010.

(14) Subdivision (b) of Section 16460.

(15) Section 16470.

(16) Section 16490.

(17) Subdivision (a) of Section 16520, to the extent it continues former Section 12001, as that section read when it was repealed by the Deadly Weapons Recodification Act of 2010.

(18) Subdivisions (b) to (g), inclusive, of Section 16520.

(19) Sections 16530 to 16550, inclusive.

(20) Section 16570.

(21) Sections 16600 to 16640, inclusive.

(22) Section 16650, to the extent it continues former Section 12060, as that section read when it was repealed by the Deadly Weapons Recodification Act of 2010.

(23) Section 16662, to the extent it continues former Section 12060, as that section read when it was repealed by the Deadly Weapons Recodification Act of 2010.

(24) Sections 16670 to 16690, inclusive.

(25) Sections 16720 to 16760, inclusive.

(26) Sections 16800 and 16810.

(27) Sections 16830 to 16870, inclusive.

(28) Sections 16920 to 16960, inclusive.

(29) Sections 16990 and 17000.

(30) Sections 17020 to 17070, inclusive.

(31) Section 17090, to the extent it continues former Section 12020, as that section read when it was repealed by the Deadly Weapons Recodification Act of 2010.

(32) Section 17110.

(33) Section 17125.

(34) Section 17160.

(35) Sections 17170 to 17200, inclusive.

(36) Sections 17270 to 17290, inclusive.

(37) Sections 17310 and 17315.

(38) Sections 17330 to 17505, inclusive.

(39) Sections 17515 to 18500, inclusive.

(40) Sections 19100 to 19290, inclusive.

(41) Sections 20200 to 21390, inclusive.

(42) Sections 21790 to 22490, inclusive.

(43) Sections 23500 to 30290, inclusive.

(44) Sections 30345 to 30365, inclusive.

(45) Sections 31500 to 31590, inclusive.

(46) Sections 31705 to 31830, inclusive.

(47) Sections 32310 to 32450, inclusive.

(48) Sections 32900 to 33320, inclusive.

(49) Sections 33600 to 34370, inclusive.

(b) Except as stated in subdivision (c), the provisions listed in subdivision (a) may be referred to as “former Chapter 1 provisions.”

(c) Subdivision (a) does not include any provision that was first codified in one of the specified numerical ranges after the effective date of the Deadly Weapons Recodification Act of 2010.

Notes and commentary — not statutory text

History

Added by Stats. 2010, Ch. 711, Sec. 6. (SB 1080) Effective January 1, 2011. Operative January 1, 2012, by Sec. 10 of Ch. 711.

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