Pen. Code, § 594.3 · Title 14. MALICIOUS MISCHIEF
Pen. Code, § 594.3
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
(a) Any person who knowingly commits any act of vandalism to a church, synagogue, mosque, temple, building owned and occupied by a religious educational institution, or other place primarily used as a place of worship where religious services are regularly conducted or a cemetery is guilty of a crime punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not exceeding one year or imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170.
(b) Any person who knowingly commits any act of vandalism to a church, synagogue, mosque, temple, building owned and occupied by a religious educational institution, or other place primarily used as a place of worship where religious services are regularly conducted or a cemetery, which is shown to have been a hate crime and to have been committed for the purpose of intimidating and deterring persons from freely exercising their religious beliefs, is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170.
(c) For purposes of this section, “hate crime” has the same meaning as Section 422.55.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 15, Sec. 407. (AB 109) Effective April 4, 2011. Operative October 1, 2011, by Sec. 636 of Ch. 15, as amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 39, Sec. 68.
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Cited by 13 provisions
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Government Code
Penal Code
- Pen. Code, § 422.85Printed as Section 302, 423.2, 594.3, 11411, 11412, or 11413
- Pen. Code, § 422.865Printed as Section 302, 423.2, 594.3, 11411, 11412, or 11413
- Pen. Code, § 594Printed as Section 594, 594.3, 594.4, 640.5, 640.6, or 640.7
- Pen. Code, § 594.6Printed as Section 594, 594.3, 594.4, or 640.7
- Pen. Code, § 640.5Printed as Section 594, 594.3, 594.4, 640.6, or 640.7
- Pen. Code, § 640.6Printed as Section 594, 594.3, 594.4, 640.5, or 640.7
- Pen. Code, § 1202.4Printed as Section 594, 594.3, 594.4, 640.5, 640.6, or 640.7
- Pen. Code, § 3053.4Printed as Section 422.6, 422.7, 422.75, 594.3, or 11411
Welfare and Institutions Code
- Welf. & Inst. Code, § 730.6Printed as Section 594, 594.3, 594.4, 640.5, 640.6, or 640.7 of the Penal Code
- Welf. & Inst. Code, § 742.14Printed as Section 594, 594.3, 594.4, 640.5, 640.6, or 640.7 of the Penal Code
- Welf. & Inst. Code, § 742.16Printed as Section 594, 594.3, 594.4, 640.5, 640.6, or 640.7 of the Penal Code
- Welf. & Inst. Code, § 742.18Printed as Section 594, 594.3, 594.4, 640.5, 640.6, or 640.7 of the Penal Code
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