Cal. Penal Code § 642
Cal. Penal Code § 642
California · California Penal Code · Status: effective
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- Cal. Penal Code § 642, California, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-25, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/887645
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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.