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point in the boundary or survey of any state road or highway on or along any such road or highway, or as a part of such road or highway work, shall be guilty of a misde

meanor.

California Jurisprudence: See article Highways.
Legislation § 588c. Added by Stats. 1915, p. 180.

§ 589. Injuries to toll houses and gates. Every person who maliciously injures or destroys any toll-house or turnpike-gate, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

California Jurisprudence: See article Turnpikes and Toll Roads. Legislation § 589. Enacted February 14, 1872; based on Field's Draft, § 693, N. Y. Pen. Code, § 639; Stats. 1853, p. 176, § 32.

§ 590. Injuries to guide-posts. Every person who maliciously removes, destroys, injures, breaks or defaces any mile post, board or stone, or guide-post erected on or near any highway, or any inscription thereon, is guilty of a misdemeanor. [Amendment approved 1907; Stats. 1907, p. 892.]

California Jurisprudence: See article Highways.

Legislation § 590, 1. Enacted February 14, 1872 (based on Field's Draft, § 694, N. Y. Pen. Code, § 639; Stats. 1853, p. 176, § 32), and then read: "Every person who maliciously removes or injures any mile board, post, or stone, or guide-post, or any inscription on such, erected upon any highway, is guilty of a misdemeanor." 2. Amended by Stats. 1907, p. 892.

$ 590a. Informer to receive half of fines collected. One half of all fines imposed and collected under the provisions of section five hundred and ninety shall be paid to the informer who first causes a complaint to be filed charging the defendant with the violation of said section.

California Jurisprudence: See articles Fines; Highways.
Legislation § 590a. Added by Stats. 1907, p. 892.

§ 590b. Driving over public bridges. Every person who rides or drives faster than a walk across any bridge on a public highway, upon which bridge there is displayed a sign or notice stating that it is illegal to ride or drive faster than a walk across the same, is guilty of a misdemeanor. California Jurisprudence: See article Bridges, vol. 4, p. 544, Legislation § 590b. Added by Stats. 1911, p. 428.

§ 591. Injuring telegraph and telephone lines. Every person who unlawfully and maliciously takes down, removes, injures or obstructs or makes any unauthorized connection with any line of telegraph or telephone, or any other line used to conduct electricity, or any part thereof, or appurtenances or apparatus connected therewith, or severs any wire thereof, is punishable by im

prisonment in the state prison not exceeding five years, or by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year. [Amendment approved May 13, 1921; Stats. 1921, p. 97.] See note to § 593.

California Jurisprudence: See article Telegraphs and Telephones. Legislation § 591. 1. Enacted February 14, 1872 (based on Field's Draft, § 695, N. Y. Pen. Code, § 639; Stats. 1862, p. 288, § 8), and then read: "Every person who maliciously takes down, removes, injures, or obstructs any line of telegraph, or any part thereof, or appurtenance or apparatus connected therewith, or severs any wire thereof, is guilty of a misdemeanor."

2. Amendment by Stats. 1901, p. 469; unconstitutional. See note, § 5, ante.

3. Amended by Stats. 1905, p. 683, to read: "Every person who maliciously takes down, removes, injures, or obstructs any line of telegraph or telephone, or any other line used to conduct electricity, or any part thereof, or appurtenances or apparatus connected therewith, or severs any wire thereof, is guilty of a misdemeanor."

4. Amended by Stats. 1909, p. 272, and then read: "Every person who maliciously takes down, removes, injures or obstructs or makes any unauthorized connection with any line of telegraph or telephone, or any other line used to conduct electricity, or any part thereof, or appurtenances or apparatus connected therewith, or severs any wire thereof, is guilty of a misdemeanor."

5. Amended by Stats. 1921, p. 97, (1) by adding the words "unlawfully and" at the beginning of the section; (2) by omitting the words "is guilty of a misdemeanor" at the end, and adding at the end the portion of the section beginning with the words "is punishable by imprisonment," etc.

§ 592. Water-ditches, etc., penalty for trespass or interference with. Every person who shall, without authority of the owner or managing agent, and with intent to defraud, take water from any canal, ditch, flume or reservoir used for the purpose of holding or conveying water for manufacturing, agricultural, mining, irrigating or generation of power, or domestic uses, or who shall without like authority, raise, lower or otherwise disturb any gate or other apparatus thereof, used for the control or measurement of water, or who shall empty or place, or cause to be emptied or placed, into any such canal, ditch, flume or reservoir, any rubbish, filth or obstruction to the free flow of the water, is guilty of a misdemeanor. [Amendment approved 1899; Stats. 1899, p. 146.]

Stealing water: See ante, § 499.

Malicious injury to canal, flume, etc.: See post, § 607.

California Jurisprudence: See article Waters.

Legislation § 592. 1. Added by Code Amdts. 1877-78, p. 118.

2. Amended by Stats. 1899, p. 146, (1) adding "irrigating or gen. eration of power" after "mining," and (2) substituting "apparatus" for "appurtenance."

§ 593. Penalty for interference with electric wires. Every person who unlawfully and maliciously takes down, removes, injures, interferes with, or obstructs any line. erected or maintained by proper authority for the purpose of transmitting electricity for light, heat, or power, or any part thereof, or any insulator or cross-arm, appurtenance or apparatus connected therewith, or severs or in any way interferes with any wire, cable, or current thereof, is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison not exceeding five years, or by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year.

This section making it a felony maliciously to interfere with the conductors of electricity used for light, power or heat was not repealed by the amendment of 1901 to § 591, makng it a misdemeanor maliciously to interfere with telegraph lines, telephone poles "or any other line used to conduct electricity." Johnson, Matter of, 167 Cal. 142, 138 Pac. 740.

California Jurisprudence: See article Electricity, vol. 10, p. 183. Legislation § 593. Added by Stats. 1901, p. 92, becoming a law, under constitutional provision, without governor's approval.

§ 593a. Driving nails, etc., in wood intended for manufacture of lumber. Every person who maliciously drives or places in any saw-log, shingle-bolt, or other wood, any iron, steel, or other substance sufficiently hard to injure saws, knowing that such saw-log, shingle-bolt, or other wood is intended to be manufactured into any kind of lumber, is guilty of a felony.

California Jurisprudence: See article Logs and Timber.

Legislation § 593a. 1. Addition by Stats. 1901, p. 469; unconstitutional. See note, § 5, ante.

2. Added by Stats. 1905, p. 683; the code commissioner saying, "This is a codification of the statute of 1875-76, p. 32, relating to the protection of lumber manufacturers."

TITLE XIV.

Malicious Mischief.

§ 594. Malicious mischief in general, defined.

§ 595. Specifications in following sections not restrictive of last sec.

tion.

§ 596. Poisoning cattle.

§ 597. Cruelty to animals.

§ 597a. Unnecessary torture, suffering or cruelty.

$597a. Docking tails of horses.

$597b. Fighting animals.

§ 597b. Registration of docked horses. County clerk to keep record. § 597c. Evidence.

§ 597c. Training for fighting, or being present at fight.

§ 597d. Arrests without warrants.

$597d. Violation a misdemeanor. Certain stock excepted. $597e. Impounding without food or water.

8597f. Permitting animals to go without care. Abandoned animals to be killed.

§ 597g. Keepers of stallions, etc.

§ 598. Killing, etc., birds in cemeteries.

§ 598a. Killing or detaining homing pigeons.

$599. Killing gulls or cranes. Destroying nests or eggs.

§ 599a. Prosecutions.

§ 599b. Words defined.

§ 599c. Not to interfere with game laws.

§ 599d. Docking of tails.

§ 599e. Animals to be killed when unfit for work.

$599f. Penalty for killing elk.

$600. Burning structures, etc., not the subject of arson.

§ 601. Malicious use of dynamite. Penalty.

§ 602. Malicious injury to real property.

Limitation upon the operations of the preceding section. [Repealed.]

§ 603.

§ 604.

Injuries to standing crops, etc.

$ 605.

Removing, defacing, or altering landmarks.

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§ 607.

Destroying or injuring bridges, dams, levees, etc.

§ 608. Burning or injuring rafts.

§ 608a. Setting vessels adrift.

§ 608b. Injuring vessels.

§ 608c. Sinking vessels a felony.

§ 609. Damages, etc., to buoy or beacon.

$610. Masking or removing signal lights, or exhibiting false lights. $611. Obstructing navigable streams.

§ 612. Depositing sawdust, etc., in Humboldt Bay.

§ 613. Throwing overboard ballast, or otherwise obstructing the navigation of any harbor, etc.

§ 614. Mooring vessels to buoys.

§ 615. Injuries to signals, monuments, etc., erected in United States coast survey.

§ 616.

Destroying or tearing down notices, etc., before expiration of time for which they were to remain set up.

§ 617. Injuring or destroying written instrument.

$618. Opening or publishing sealed letters.

$619. Disclosing contents of telegraphic or telephonic messages. § 620. Altering telegraphic or telephonic messages.

§621. Opening telegraphic or telephonic messages.

$622. Injuring works of art or improvements in any city, town, or

village.

623. Mutilation of books, etc., in public libraries and museums. § 6234. Willful detention of library books.

$624. Breaking or obstructing gas or water pipes, etc.

$625. Drawing water from works after they have been closed. § 625a. Unlawful interferences with fire-alarm apparatus. Penalty.

§ 594. Malicious mischief in general, defined. Every person who maliciously injures or destroys any real or personal property not his own, in cases otherwise than such as are specified in this code, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Jurisdiction of police court: See Pol. Code, § 4426.

California Jurisprudence: See article Malicious Mischief.

Legislation § 594. Enacted February 14, 1872; based on Field's Draft, § 696, N. Y. Pen. Code, § 640.

$595. Specifications in following sections not restrictive of last section. The specification of the acts enumerated in the following sections of this chapter is not intended to restrict or qualify the interpretation of the preceding section. California Jurisprudence: See article Malicious Mischief.

Legislation § 595. 1. Enacted February 14, 1872; almost identical with Field's Draft, § 697.

2. Amendment by Stats. 1901, p. 469; unconstitutional. See note, § 5, ante.

§ 596. Poisoning cattle. Every person who willfully administers any poison to an animal, the property of another, or maliciously exposes any poisonous substance, with the intent that the same shall be taken or swallowed by any such animal, is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison not exceeding three years, or in the county jail not exceeding one year, and a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars. Cruelty to animals: See post, § 597.

California Jurisprudence: See article Animals, vol. 2, p. 65. Legislation § 596. Enacted February 14, 1872; based on Field's Draft, § 698, N. Y. Pen, Code, § 660.

§ 597. Cruelty to animals. Every person who maliciously kills, maims, or wounds an animal, the property of another, or who overdrives, overloads, drives when overloaded, overworks, tortures, torments, deprives of necessary sustenance, drink or shelter, cruelly beats, mutilates, or cruelly kills any animal, or causes or procures any animal to be so overdriven, overloaded, driven when overloaded, overworked, tortured, tormented, deprived of necessary sustenance, drink or shelter, or to be cruelly beaten, mutilated or cruelly killed; and whoever, having the charge or custody of any animal, either as owner or otherwise, subjects any animal to needless suffering, or inflicts unnecessary cruelty upon

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