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Business and Professions Code - BPC

DIVISION 8. SPECIAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS [18400 - 22949.80]

  ( Division 8 added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 44. )
  

CHAPTER 5. The Gambling Control Act [19800 - 19987]

  ( Chapter 5 repealed and added by Stats. 1997, Ch. 867, Sec. 3. )
  

ARTICLE 11. Penalties [19940 - 19944]
  ( Article 11 heading added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 738, Sec. 96. )

  
19944.  

Any person who willfully resists, prevents, impedes, or interferes with the department or the commission or any of their agents or employees in the performance of duties pursuant to this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than six months, by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both that imprisonment and fine.

(Amended by Stats. 2007, Ch. 176, Sec. 41. Effective August 24, 2007.)