Pub. Resources Code, § 3916 · Chapter 1. Manner of Locating Mining Claims, Tunnel Rights, and Millsites
Pub. Resources Code, § 3916
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
Any person who takes down, removes, alters, or destroys any stake, post, monument, or notice of location upon any mining claim which is required by law to be upon the mining claim, without the consent of the owner thereof, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars ($200) or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than six months, or by both the fine and imprisonment.
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History
Added by Stats. 1988, Ch. 259, Sec. 11.
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