Pen. Code, § 529.7 · Chapter 8. False Personation and Cheats
Pen. Code, § 529.7
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
Any person who obtains, or assists another person in obtaining, a driver’s license, identification card, vehicle registration certificate, or any other official document issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles, with knowledge that the person obtaining the document is not entitled to the document, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for up to one year, or a fine of up to one thousand dollars ($1,000), or both.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 907, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2003.
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