Malicious injuries to bridges: See post, § 607. Legislation § 588. 1. Enacted February 14, 1872; based on Field's Draft, § 692, N. Y. Pen. Code, § 639; Stats. 1861, p. 397, § 20; Stats. 1861, p. 625, § 53; Stats. 1855, p. 192, §§ 12, 13. It then read: "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." 2. Amended by Stats. 1915, p. 180. § 588a. Throwing glass upon highway. Any person who throws or deposits any glass bottle, glass, nails, tacks, hoops, wire, cans or any other substance likely to injure any person, animal or vehicle upon any public highway in the state of California shall be guilty of misdemeanor. Legislation § 588a. Added by Stats. 1911, p. 91. § 588b. Engineering department may close roads. May erect barriers. Penalty for breaking down barriers. If it shall appear necessary to the state department of engineering, its officers or appropriate employees, to close any road or highway coming under its jurisdiction so as to permit of proper completion of work which is being performed, such department, its officers or appropriate employees, may close, or cause to be closed, the whole or any portion of such road or highway deemed necessary to be excluded from public travel. While any such road or highway, or portion thereof, is so closed, or while any such road or highway, or portion thereof, is in process of construction or maintenance, such department, its officers or appropriate employees, or its contractor under authority from such department or the appropriate officers or employees of such department, may erect or cause to be erected, suitable barriers or obstructions thereon, may post, or cause to be posted, conspicuous notices to the effect that the road or highway, or portion thereof, is closed or directing the traffic, and may place, or cause to be placed, warning lights and lanterns on such road or highway, or portion thereof. When such road or highway is closed to the public or in process of construction or maintenance, as provided herein, any person who willfully breaks down, removes, injures or destroys any such barriers or obstructions, or tears down, removes or destroys any such notices, or extinguishes, removes, injures or destroys any such warning lights or lanterns, so erected, posted or placed by such department of engineering, its officers, appropriate employees, or its authorized contractor, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Legislation § 588b. Added by Stats. 1915, p. 641. § 588c. Removing stakes, etc., on state highway, misdemeanor. Any person who willfully injures, defaces, breaks down or removes any monument or stake placed, erected or used by the state department of engineering, its officers or employees for the purpose of designating any 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. 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. 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.] 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. 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. Legislation § 590b. Added by Stats. 1911, p. 428. § 591. Injuries to telegraph or telephone lines. 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. [Amendment approved 1909; Stats. 1909, p. 272.] 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. § 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. Legislation § 592. 1. Added by Code Amdts. 1877-78, p. 118. 2. Amended by Stats. 1899, p. 146, (1) adding “irrigating or generation 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. 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. Legislation § 593a. 1. Addition by Stats. 1901, p. 469; unconstitu tional. 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. § 597f. 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. Killing of elk a felony. § 600. Burning structures, etc., not the subject of arson. § 601. Malicious use of dynamite. Penalty. § 602. Malicious injury to freehold. § 603. Limitation upon the operations of the preceding section. [Repealed.] § 604. Injuries to standing crops, etc. $605. Removing, defacing, or altering landmarks. § 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. § 616. § 617. Injuries to signals, monuments, etc., erected in United States Destroying or tearing down notices, etc., before expiration of § 618. Opening or publishing sealed letters. § 619. Disclosing contents of telegraphic or telephonic messages. |