California Jurisprudence: See articles Malicious Mischief; Wa ters. Legislation § 613. Enacted February 14, 1872 (N. Y. Pen. Code, § 444); based on Stats. 1861, p. 224, § 3; Stats. 1863-64, p. 138. § 614. Mooring vessels to buoys. Every person mooring any vessel to or hanging on with a vessel to any buoy or beacon, placed by competent authority in any navigable waters of this state, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Act for protection of buoys and beacons: See Stats. 1873-74, p. 619 (Gen. Laws, tit. "Buoys and Beacons"). Protection of buoys or beacons: See ante, § 609. California Jurisprudence: See article Shipping. Legislation § 614. Enacted February 14, 1872; based on Stats. 1861, p. 224, § 2. § 615. Injuries to signals, monuments, etc., erected in United States coast survey. Every person who willfully injures, defaces, or removes any signal, monument, building, or appurtenance thereto, placed, erected or used by persons engaged in the United States coast survey, is guilty of a misdemeanor. California Jurisprudence: See article Malicious Mischief. Legislation § 615. Enacted February 14, 1872; based on Stats. 1852, p. 148, § 6. § 616. Destroying or tearing down notices, etc., before expiration of time for which they were to remain set up. Every person who intentionally defaces, obliterates, tears down, or destroys any copy or transcript, or extract from or of any law of the United States or of this state, or any proclamation, advertisement, or notification set up at any place in this state, by authority of any law of the United States or of this state, or by order of any court, before the expiration of the time for which the same was to remain set up, is punishable by fine not less than twenty nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not more than one month. California Jurisprudence: See article Malicious Mischief. § 617. Injuring or destroying written instrument. Every person who maliciously mutilates, tears, defaces, obliterates, or destroys any written instrument, the property of another, the false making of which would be forgery, is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for not less than one nor more than five years. California Jurisprudence: See article Malicious Mischief. Legislation § 617. Enacted February 14, 1872; based on Field's Draft, § 715, N. Y. Pen. Code, § 94; Crimes and Punishment Act, Stats. 1850, p. 236, § 68. § 618. Opening or publishing sealed letters. Every person who willfully opens or reads, or causes to be read, any sealed letter not addressed to himself, without being authorized so to do, either by the writer of such letter or by the person to whom it is addressed, and every person who, without the like authority, publishes any of the contents of such letter, knowing the same to have been unlawfully opened, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Legislation § 618. Enacted February 14, 1872 (Field's Draft, § 717, N. Y. Pen. Code, § 642); based on Crimes and Punishment Act, Stats. 1850, p. 243, § 111, which read: "§ 111. Every person who shall willfully open or read, or cause to be read, any sealed letter not addressed to himself, without being authorized so to do, either by the writer of such letter or by the person to whom it shall be addressed; and every person who shall maliciously publish the whols or any part of such letter without the authority of the writer thereof, or of the person to whom the same shall be addressed, knowing the same to have been opened, shall, upon conviction, be punished by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars." § 619. Disclosing contents of telegraphic or telephonic messages. Every person who willfully discloses the contents of a telegraphic or telephonic message, or any part thereof, addressed to another person, without the permission of such person, unless directed so to do by the lawful order of a court, is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison not exceeding five years, or in the county jail not exceeding one year, or by fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or by both fine and imprisonment. [Amendment approved 1905; Stats. 1905, p. 690.] This section construed in connection with §§ 620 and 621, post, relative to the same subject, is manifestly intended to preserve secrecy as to telegraph messages only among all those who have a duty to perform with respect to the dispatch, transmission or delivery thereof. People v. Earl, 19 Cal. App. 69, 124 Pac. 887. Disclosing contents of message: See post, § 640. California Jurisprudence: See article Telegraphs and Telephones. Legislation § 619. 1. Enacted February 14, 1872 (Field's Draft, § 718, N. Y. Pen. Code, § 642); based on Stats. 1862, p. 289, §§ 1-5. 2. Amended by Code Amdts. 1880, p. 38, adding "unless directed so to do by the lawful order of a court" after "without the permission of such person." 3. Amendment by Stats. 1901, p. 475; unconstitutional. See note, § 5, ante. 4. Amended by Stats. 1905, p. 690, adding "or telephonic" after "telegraphic." § 620. Altering telegraphic or telephonic messages. Every person who willfully alters the purport, effect, or meaning of a telegraphic or telephonic message to the injury of another, is punishable as provided in the preceding section. [Amendment approved 1905; Stats. 1905, p. 690.] See note to § 619, ante. California Jurisprudence: See article Malicious Mischief. Legislation § 620. 1. Enacted February 14, 1872; based on Stats. 1862, p. 288, § 1. 2. Amendment by Stats. 1901, p. 475; unconstitutional. See note, § 5, ante. 3. Amended by Stats. 1905, p. 690, adding "or telephonic" after "telegraphic." § 621. Opening telegraphic or telephonic messages. Every person not connected with any telegraph or telephone office who, without the authority or consent of the person to whom the same may be directed, willfully opens any sealed envelope inclosing a telegraphic or telephonic message, addressed to another person, with the purpose of learning the contents of such message, or who fraudulently represents another person and thereby procures to be delivered to himself any telegraphic or telephonic message addressed to such other person, with the intent to use, destroy, or detain the same from the person entitled to receive such message, is punishable as provided in section six hundred and nineteen. [Amendment approved 1905; Stats. 1905, p. 690.] See note to § 619, ante. California Jurisprudence: phones. See article Telegraphs and Tele Legislation § 621. 1. Enacted February 14, 1872 (N. Y. Pen. Code, §642); based on Stats. 1862, p. 289, § 5. 2. Amendment by Stats. 1901, p. 475; unconstitutional. See note, § 5, ante. 3. Amended by Stats. 1905, p. 690, (1) adding (a) "or telephone" after "telegraph," and (b) "or telephonic" after "telegraphic" in both instances; (2) changing "any other person" to "another person," in both instances; (3) omitting (a) "and" before "addressed to" in first instance, and (b) "or persons" after "from the person." § 622. Injuring works of art or improvements in any city, town, or village. Every person, not the owner thereof, who willfully injures, disfigures, or destroys any monument, work of art, or useful or ornamental improvement within the limits of any village, town, or city, or any shade-tree or ornamental plant growing therein, whether situated upon private ground or on any street, sidewalk, or public park or place, is guilty of a misdemeanor. California Jurisprudence: See article Malicious Mischief. Legislation § 622. Enacted February 14, 1872; based on Field's Draft, § 720, N. Y. Pen. Code, § 647. § 623. Mutilation of books, etc., in public libraries and museums. Every person who maliciously cuts, tears, defaces, breaks, or injures any book, map, chart, picture, engraving, statute, coin, model, apparatus, or other work of literature, art, mechanics, or object of curiosity, deposited in any public library, gallery, museum, collection, fair, or exhibition, is guilty of a misdemeanor. [Amendment approved 1901; Stats. 1901, p. 99.] California Jurisprudence: See article Malicious Mischief. Legislation § 623. 1. Enacted February 14, 1872; based on Field's Draft, § 721, N. Y. Pen. Code, § 648. 2. Amended by Stats. 1901, p. 99, (1) omitting "or" before "mechanics," and (2) changing "felony" to "a misdemeanor" at end of section. § 6232. Willful detention of library books. Whoever willfully detains any book, newspaper, magazine, pamphlet, manuscript, or other property belonging to any public or incorporated library, reading-room, museum or other educational institution, for thirty days after notice in writing to return the same, given after the expiration of the time which by the rules of such institution such article or other property may be kept, is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished accordingly. California Jurisprudence: See article Malicious Mischief. Legislation § 6232. Added by Stats. 1899, p. 97; becoming a law, under constitutional provision, without governor's approval. § 624. Breaking or obstructing gas or water pipes, etc. Every person who willfully breaks, digs up, obstructs, or injures any pipe or main for conducting gas or water, or any works erected for supplying buildings with gas or water, or any appurtenances or appendages therewith connected, is guilty of a misdemeanor. California Jurisprudence: See article Malicious Mischief. Legislation § 624. Enacted February 14, 1872; based on Field's Draft, § 625, N. Y. Pen. Code, § 639; Stats. 1861, p. 533, §§ 1, 2. § 625. Drawing water from works after they have been closed. Every person who, with intent to defraud or injure, opens or causes to be opened, or draws water from any stopcock or faucet by which the flow of water is controlled, after having been notified that the same has been closed or shut for specific cause, by order of competent authority, is guilty of a misdemeanor. California Jurisprudence: Sec article Malicious Mischief. Legislation § 625. Enacted February 14, 1872; based on Stats. 1861, p. 533, § 3. § 625a. Unlawful interferences with fire-alarm apparatus. Penalty. Any person who willfully and maliciously tampers with, molests, injures, or breaks any public fire-alarm apparatus, wire, or signal, or willfully and maliciously sends, gives, transmits, or sounds any false alarm of fire, by means of any public fire-alarm system or signal, is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail, not exceeding one year, or by a fine, not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment. California Jurisprudence: See article Malicious Mischief. TITLE XV. Miscellaneous Crimes. Chapter I. Violation of the Laws for the Preservation of Game and Fish. §§ 626-6371⁄2. II. Other and Miscellaneous Offenses. §§ 638-654. CHAPTER I. Violation of the Laws for the Preservation of Game and Fish. § 626. Protection of ducks, geese, etc. Quail. Rabbits. § 626a. Retaining fish and game after open season, § 626b. Nests or eggs. § 626c. Killing swans, pheasants, etc. § 626d [1]. Limit of game. § 626d [2]. Bag limit for game. § 626e. Hunting female deer, etc., misdemeanor. Hunters to retain portion of head bearing horns. "Spiked buck" defined. § 626f. Protection of deer. § 626g. Tree squirrels, killing prohibited. § 626h. Penalty for selling deer skins. § 6261. Limit of deer that may be killed. § 626j. Tracking deer with more than one dog a misdemeanor. § 626k. Certain game not to be sold. § 6261. Permission to take fish and game for scientific purposes. § 626m. Night hunting and fishing. § 626n. Use of animals as blinds. § 6260. Shooting from moving boats. Gauge of gun. Possession of "cane gun," etc. § 626p. When sea brant may not be killed. Sea brant in district No. 1. § 626p. Hunting beaver. Penalty. § 626q. Penalty for killing sea otter. § 626г. Penalty for sale of aigrettes, etc. § 626s. Game refuges established. Penalties. § 626t. No section of this number. § 626u. Affidavit when shipping deer. Penalty. [Repealed.] § 6261. Protection of growing crops from wild ducks, etc. § 627. Trespass upon inclosed or cultivated grounds a misdemeanor. § 627a. Transportation of game out of state misdemeanor. § 627b. Shipment of more than limit of certain game. 8627c. Protection to song-birds and their nests. [Repealed.] § 627d. Penalties. [Repealed.] § 628. Protection of shrimp. Spiny lobster. Crab. § 628a. Protection of striped bass. Shad. Limit. § 628b. Protection of perch, sunfish. Bass. § 628c. Protection of young fish. Fish near spawning station. In fourteenth district. For scientific purposes. § 628d. Fine or imprisonment. Disposition of fines. § 628e. Protection of whiting, etc. § 628f. Protection of abalone. Protection of clams. § 628g. Salt-water perch. 8628g. Shipping abalone meat prohibited. Penalty. [Repealed.] § 628h. Permission to plant fish and fish eggs. § 6281. Use of Chinese shrimp nets. § 628j. Catching salt-water eels. Penalty. § 629. Screens over mill-races, pipes, etc. Investigation as to neceesity of screens. Taking of evidence. Witness fees. At |