Cal. Harbors and Navigation Code - HNC § 300. Section 300.
A person who willfully and maliciously cuts, breaks, injures, sinks, or sets adrift a vessel of less than ten gross tons that is the property of another is guilty of a misdemeanor.
CHAPTER 4. Offenses [300. - 310.]
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in effectCal. Harbors and Navigation Code - HNC § 301. Section 301.
A person who willfully and maliciously cuts, breaks, or injures a vessel of ten gross tons and upwards that is the property of another is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Cal. Harbors and Navigation Code - HNC § 302. Section 302.
A person who willfully and maliciously sinks or sets adrift a vessel of ten gross tons and upwards that is the property of another is guilty of a felony.
Cal. Harbors and Navigation Code - HNC § 303. Section 303.
A person who willfully and maliciously burns, injures, or destroys any part of, or the whole of, a pile or raft of wood, plank, boards, or other lumber, or cuts loose or sets adrift the raft or part of the raft, that is the property of another, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Cal. Harbors and Navigation Code - HNC § 304. Section 304.
A person in command or charge of a vessel, who, within this state, willfully wrecks, sinks, or otherwise injures or destroys it or any of its cargo, or willfully permits the same to be wrecked, sunk, or otherwise injured or destroyed, with intent to prejudice or defraud a person, is guilty of a felony.
Cal. Harbors and Navigation Code - HNC § 305. Section 305.
A person, other than one described in Section 304 who is guilty of any act specified in that section is guilty of a felony.
Cal. Harbors and Navigation Code - HNC § 306. Section 306.
A person who prepares, makes, or subscribes a false or fraudulent manifest, invoice, bill of lading, ship’s register, or protest, with intent to defraud another, is guilty of a felony.
Cal. Harbors and Navigation Code - HNC § 307. Section 307.
(a)
A person who moors a vessel to, or hangs on with a vessel to, a buoy or beacon, except a designated mooring buoy, is guilty of an infraction, punishable by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars ($100).
(b)
A person who willfully removes, damages, or destroys a buoy or beacon,
placed by competent authority in any navigable waters of this state, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Cal. Harbors and Navigation Code - HNC § 308. Section 308.
A person who moors a vessel of any kind, to a buoy or beacon, except a designated mooring buoy, placed in the waters of the state by authority of the United States Coast Guard, or who in any manner hangs on to the same, with a vessel, or who willfully removes, damages, or destroys any such buoy or beacon, or any part of the buoy or beacon, or who cuts down, removes, damages, or destroys a beacon erected on land in this state by that authority, is, for every offense, guilty of a misdemeanor.
Cal. Harbors and Navigation Code - HNC § 309. Section 309.
A person found guilty of a misdemeanor violation as
provided in this chapter shall be subject to a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000) or imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed six months, or both that fine and imprisonment.
Cal. Harbors and Navigation Code - HNC § 310. Section 310.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person found guilty of a felony violation as provided in this chapter shall be subject to a fine not to exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000) or imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of the Penal Code for 16 months, two or three years, or both that fine and imprisonment.
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