California Statutes
§ 642. — 642. (Added by Stats. 1939, Ch. 691.)
California § 642.
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Part 1.TITLE 15. MISCELLANEOUS CRIMES
Ch. 2.CHAPTER 2. Of Other and Miscellaneous Offenses
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Cal. Penal Code - PEN Code § 642. (2026).
Text
Every person who wilfully and maliciously removes and keeps possession of and appropriates for his own use articles of value from a dead human body, the theft of which articles would be petty theft is guilty of a misdemeanor, or if the theft of the articles would be grand theft, a felony. This section shall not apply to articles removed at the request or direction of one of the persons enumerated in section 7111 of the Health and Safety Code.
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Hammer v. Gross
932 F.2d 842 (Ninth Circuit, 1991)
Legislative History
Added by Stats. 1939, Ch. 691.
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