Pen. Code, § 17090 · Division 2. DEFINITIONS
Pen. Code, § 17090
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
As used in Sections 16530, 16640, 16650, 16660, 16870, and 17170, Sections 17720 to 17730, inclusive, Section 17740, subdivision (f) of Section 27555, Article 2 (commencing with Section 30300) of Chapter 1 of Division 10 of Title 4, and Article 1 (commencing with Section 33210) of Chapter 8 of Division 10 of Title 4, “rifle” means a weapon designed or redesigned, made or remade, and intended to be fired from the shoulder and designed or redesigned and made or remade to use the energy of the explosive in a fixed cartridge to fire only a single projectile through a rifled bore for each single pull of the trigger.
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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Provisions in this library that the text above cites, as it prints each citation. A range cited as “ss. 61.13-61.16” links its first and last provisions.
Penal Code
- Pen. Code, § 16530Printed as Sections 16530, 16640, 16650, 16660, 16870, and 17170
- Pen. Code, § 16640Printed as Sections 16530, 16640, 16650, 16660, 16870, and 17170
- Pen. Code, § 16650Printed as Sections 16530, 16640, 16650, 16660, 16870, and 17170
- Pen. Code, § 16660Printed as Sections 16530, 16640, 16650, 16660, 16870, and 17170
- Pen. Code, § 16870Printed as Sections 16530, 16640, 16650, 16660, 16870, and 17170
- Pen. Code, § 17170Printed as Sections 16530, 16640, 16650, 16660, 16870, and 17170
- Pen. Code, § 17720Printed as Sections 17720 to 17730, inclusive
- Pen. Code, § 17730Printed as Sections 17720 to 17730, inclusive
- Pen. Code, § 17740Printed as Section 17740
- Pen. Code, § 27555Printed as Section 27555
- Pen. Code, pt. 6, tit. 4, div. 10, ch. 1, art. 2Other Restrictions Relating to AmmunitionPrinted as Article 2 (commencing with Section 30300) of Chapter 1 of Division 10 of Title 4
Cited by 3 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Pen. Code, § 17090. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Penal Code
- Pen. Code, § 3453Printed as Section 16570, 16740, 16760, 16830, 16920, 16930, 16940, 17090, 17125, 17160, 17170, 17180, 17190, 17200, 17270, 17280, 17330, 17350, 17360, 17700, 17705, 17710, 17715, 17720, 17725, 17730, 17735, 177
- Pen. Code, § 12021.5Printed as Section 17090
- Pen. Code, § 16580Printed as Section 17090
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