CHAPTER XIV. FRAUDULENT ISSUE OF DOCUMENTS OF TITLE TO MERCHANDISE. § 577. § 579. Issuing fictitious bills of lading, etc. § 578. Issuing fictitious warehouse receipts. § 580. 581. Erroneous bills of lading or receipts issued in good faith. Selling, etc., property received for transportation or storage. § 582. Bill of lading or receipt issued by warehousemen. (Repealed.) § 583. Property demanded by process of law. or § 577. Issuing fictitious bills of lading, etc. Every person, being the master, owner, or agent of any vessel, or officer or agent of any railroad, express, or transportation company, or otherwise being or representing any carrier, who delivers any bill of lading, receipt, or other voucher, by which it appears that any merchandise of any description has been shipped on board any vessel, or delivered to any railroad, express, or transportation company, other carrier, unless the same has been so shipped or delivered, and is at the time actually under the control of such carrier, or the master, owner, or agent of such vessel, or of some officer or agent of such company, to be forwarded as expressed in such bill of lading, receipt, or voucher, is punshable by imprisonment in the state prison not exceeding five years, or by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or both. En. February 14, 1872. Bill of lading: See Civ. Code, secs. 2126 et seq. § 578. Issuing fictitious warehouse receipts. Every person carrying on the business of a warehouseman, wharfin ger, or other depositary of property, who issues any receipt, bill of lading, or other voucher for any merchandise of any description, which has not been actually received upon the premises of such person, and is not under his actual control at the time of issuing such instrument, whether such instrument is issued to a person as being the owner of such merchandise, or as security for any indebtedness, is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison not exceeding five years, or by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or both. En. February 14, 1872. Bill of lading: See Civ. Code, secs. 2126 et seq. § 579. Erroneous bills of lading or receipts issued in good faith. No person can be convicted of an offense under the last two sections by reason that the contents of any barrel, box, case, cask, or other vessel or package mentioned in the bill of lading, receipt, or other voucher, did not correspond with the description given in such instrument of the merchandise received, if such description corresponded substantially with the marks, labels, or brands upon the outside of such vessel or package, unless it appears that the accused knew that such marks, labels, or brands, were untrue. En. February 14, 1872. § 580. Duplicate receipts must be marked "duplicate." Every person mentioned in this chapter who issues any second or duplicate receipt or voucher, of a kind specified therein, at a time while any former receipt or voucher for the merchandise specified in such second receipt is outstanding and uncanceled, without writing across the face of the same the word "duplicate," in a plain and legible manner, is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison not exceeding five years, or by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or both. En. February 14, 1872. Duplicate bills: See Civ. Code, sec. 2130. § 581. Selling, etc., property received for transportation or storage. Every person mentioned in this chapter, who sells, hypothecates, or pledges any merchandise for which any bill of lading, receipt, or voucher has been issued by him, without the consent in writing thereto of the person holding such bill, receipt, or voucher, is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison not exceeding five years, or by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or both. En. February 14, 1872. § 582. Bill of lading or receipt issued by warehouseman. (Repealed.) En. February 14, 1872. Rep. 1873-4, 434. § 583. Property demanded by process of law. The last two sections do not apply where property is demanded or sold by virtue of process of law. En. February 14, 1872. MALICIOUS CHAPTER XV. INJURIES ΤΟ RAILROAD BRIDGES, HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES, AND TELEGRAPHS. § 587. Injuries to railroads and railroad bridges. § 588. Injuries to highways, private ways, and bridges. 589. Injuries to toll-houses and gates. § 590. Injuries to milestones and guide-boards. 591. Injuring telegraph or telephone lines. 592. Taking water from or obstructing canals. 593. Penalty for interference with electric wires. § 593a. Driving nails, etc., in wood intended for manufacture of tumber. § 587. Injuries to railroads and railroad bridges. Every person who maliciously, either 1. Removes, displaces, injures, or destroys any part of any railroad, whether for steam or horse cars, or any track of any railroad, or any branch or branch-way, switch, turnout, bridge, viaduct, culvert, embankment, station-house, or other structure or fixture, or any part thereof, attached to or connected with any railroad; or, 2. Places any obstruction upon the rails or track of any railroad, or of any switch, branch, branch-way, or turnout connected with any railroad; -is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison not exceeding five years, or in the county jail not less than six months. En. February 14, 1872. Cal. Rep. Cit. 75, 571. § 588. Injuries to highways, private ways, and bridges. Every person who maliciously digs up, removes, displaces, breaks, or otherwise injures or destroys any public highway or bridge, or any private way laid out by authority of law, or bridge upon such highway or private way, is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison not exceeding five years, or in the county jail not exceeding one year. En. February 14, 1872. Cal. Rep. Cit. 136, 456; 136, 550. § 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. En. February 14, 1872. § 590. Injuries to milestones and guide-boards. 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. En. February 14, 1872. 591. Injuring telegraph or telephone lines. 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. En. February 14, 1872. Am'd. 1905, 683. The change consists in the insertion of the words "or telephone, or any other line used to conduct electricity."-Code Commissioner's Note. Cal. Rep. Cit. 127, 315; 127, 317. § 592. Taking water from or obstructing canals. 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. En. 1877-8, 118. Am'd. 1899, 146. § 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 years. En. Stats. 1901, 92. § 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. En. Stats. 1905, 683. This is a codification of the statute of 1875-6, page 32, relating to the protection of lumber manufacturers.-Code Commissioner's Note. 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. Killing, maiming, or torturing animals. § 597a. Unnecessary torture, suffering, or cruelty. § 597b. Fighting animals. § 597c. Training for fighting, or being present at fight. § 597d. Arrests without warrants. § 597e. Impounding without food or water. 597f. Permitting animals to go without care. § 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. § 599. Elk, killing of a felony. § 599a. Prosecution. § 599b. Words defined. 599c. Not to interfere with game laws. § 599d. Docking of tails. 599e. Animals to be killed, when unfit for work. 600. 601. § 602. § 603. Burning structures, etc., not the subject of arson. Using explosives, in destroying or injuring buildings, etc. Limitation upon the operations of the preceding section. (Re- 604. Injuries to standing crops, etc. 605. Removing, defacing, or altering landmarks. § 606. Destroying or injuring jails. 607. § 608. Destroying or injuring bridges, dams, etc. Masking or removing signals, or exhibiting false lights. § 612. Depositing sawdust, etc., in Humboldt Bay. § 613. § 614. Throwing overboard ballast, or obstructing navigation. § 615. Injuries to signals, etc., in United States survey. 616. Destroying or tearing down notices, etc. § 617. Injuring or destroying written instrument. 618. Opening or publishing sealed letters. § 619. Disclosing contents of telegraphic or telephonic message. Altering telegraphic or telephonic messages. 620. § 621. Opening telegraphic or telephonic messages. |