AB 1421, as introduced, Linder. Gambling Control Act.
Existing law, the Gambling Control Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of various legalized gambling activities and establishments by the California Gambling Control Commission. The willful failure to pay the required license fee is a crime.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 19942 of the Business and Professions
2Code is amended to read:
(a) begin deleteAny end deletebegin insertA end insertperson who willfully fails to report, pay, or
4truthfully account for and pay over any license fee imposed by
5this chapter, or who willfully attempts in any manner to evade or
6defeat the license fee or payment thereof, shall be punished by
7imprisonment in a county jail, by a fine of not more than five
8thousand dollars ($5,000), or by both that imprisonment and fine.
P2 1(b) begin deleteAny end deletebegin insertA
end insertperson who willfully violates any of the provisions
2of this chapter for which a penalty is not expressly provided, is
3guilty of a misdemeanor.
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