Penal Code - PEN
PART 3. OF IMPRISONMENT AND THE DEATH PENALTY [2000 - 10008]
( Part 3 repealed and added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 106. ) TITLE 1. IMPRISONMENT OF MALE PRISONERS IN STATE PRISONS [2000 - 3105]
( Title 1 repealed and added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 106. ) CHAPTER 7. Execution of Sentences of Imprisonment [2900 - 2981]
( Heading of Chapter 7 renumbered from Chapter 6 by Stats. 1941, Ch. 893. ) ARTICLE 3. Blacklist or Extortion of Discharged Prisoner [2947- 2947.]
( Article 3 repealed and added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 165. ) 2947.
Any person who knowingly and willfully communicates to another, either orally or in writing, any statement concerning any person then or theretofore convicted of a felony, and then finally discharged, and which communication is made with the purpose and intent to deprive such person so convicted of employment, or to prevent him from procuring the same, or with the purpose and intent to extort from him any money or article of value; and any person who threatens to make any such communication with the purpose and intent to extort money or any article of value from such person so convicted of a felony is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 165.)