BILL NUMBER: AB 1860	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Alejo

                        FEBRUARY 10, 2016

   An act to amend Section 566 of the Penal Code, relating to branded
containers.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1860, as introduced, Alejo. Branded containers: brand
registration: destruction.
   Existing law makes it a felony for an unauthorized person, as
defined, to possess, or use, or to obliterate or destroy the brand
registration upon, containers, including milk cases, cabinets, or
other dairy equipment, which have a value in excess of $950.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to this
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 1.  Section 566 of the Penal Code is amended to read:
   566.  It is a felony, punishable by a fine not exceeding one
thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500), or by imprisonment pursuant
to subdivision (h) of Section 1170, or both, for an unauthorized
person to possess or use, or to obliterate or destroy the brand
registration upon,  containers (including milk cases),
  containers, including milk cases,  cabinets, or
other dairy equipment, which have a value in excess of nine hundred
fifty dollars ($950), when the containers, cabinets, or other dairy
equipment are marked with a brand that is registered pursuant to
Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 34501) of Part 1 of Division 15
of the Food and Agricultural Code.  "Unauthorized person"
shall have the meaning of that term   For purposes of
this section, "unauthorized person" has the same meaning  as
defined in Section 34564 of the Food and Agricultural Code.