BILL NUMBER: AB 316	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 28, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 27, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 30, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Carter
    (   Coauthor:   Assembly Member  
Jeffries   ) 
    (   Coauthor:   Senator   Anderson
  ) 

                        FEBRUARY 9, 2011

   An act to add Section 487j to the Penal Code, relating to theft.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 316, as amended, Carter. Grand theft: copper materials.
   Existing law  generally  provides that grand
theft is theft when the money, labor, or real or personal property
taken is of a value exceeding $950  and is punishable as either a
misdemeanor or a felony  .  Existing law makes the
amount threshold of the theft of certain items $250, including theft
of farm crops and specified agricultural products. 
   This bill would provide that every person who  feloniously
 steals, takes, or carries away copper materials which are
of a value exceeding $950 is guilty of grand theft, punishable by a
fine not exceeding $2,500,  or  imprisonment in a
county jail not exceeding one year,  or by both that fine and
imprisonment,  or  by  imprisonment in the state prison
not exceeding 16 months, or 2 or 3 years  , or by both that
fine and imprisonment   and a fine not to exceed $10,000
 .
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 487j is added to the Penal Code, to read:
   487j.  Every person who  feloniously  steals,
takes, or carries away copper materials of another, including, but
not limited to, copper wire, copper cable, copper tubing, and copper
piping, which are of a value exceeding nine hundred fifty dollars
($950) is guilty of grand theft. Grand theft of copper shall be
punishable by a fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars
($2,500),  or   by  imprisonment in a
county jail not exceeding one year,  or by both that fine and
imprisonment,  or  by  imprisonment in the state prison
not exceeding 16 months, or two  or three years, or by both
that fine and imprisonment.   or three years and a fine
not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000).