Title PEN, California Penal Code

Every person carrying on the business of a warehouseman, wharfinger, or other depositary of property, who issues any receipt, bill of lading, or other voucher for any merchandise of any description, which has not been actually received upon the premises of that person, and is not…

No person shall be convicted of an offense under Section 577 or 578 by reason that the contents of any barrel, box, case, cask, or other vessel or package mentioned in the bill of lading, receipt, or other voucher did not correspond with the description given in the instrument of…

Every person mentioned in this chapter, who issues any second or duplicate receipt or voucher, of a kind specified therein, at a time while any former receipt or voucher for the merchandise specified in that second receipt is outstanding and uncanceled, without writing across the…

Every person mentioned in this chapter, who sells, hypothecates, or pledges any merchandise for which any bill of lading, receipt, or voucher has been issued by him or her, without the consent in writing thereto of the person holding that bill, receipt, or voucher, is punishable …

Section 581 does not apply where property is demanded or sold by virtue of process of law. (Amended by Stats. 1987, Ch. 828, Sec. 34.)

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the New Prison Construction Bond Act of 1986. (Added by Stats. 1986, Ch. 409, Sec. 1. Approved in Proposition 54 at the November 4, 1986, election.)

The State General Obligation Bond Law is adopted for the purpose of the issuance, sale and repayment of, and otherwise providing with respect to, the bonds authorized to be issued by this chapter, and the provisions of that law are included in this chapter as though set out in fu…

There is in the State Treasury the 1986 Prison Construction Fund, which fund is hereby created. The proceeds of the sale of bonds authorized by this act shall be deposited in this fund and may be transferred upon request of the Department of Corrections and upon approval of the D…

The 1986 Prison Construction Committee is hereby created. The committee shall consist of the Controller, the State Treasurer, and the Director of Finance. That committee shall be the “committee,” as that term is used in the State General Obligation Bond Law. The Department of Cor…

The committee is hereby authorized and empowered to create a debt or debts, liability or liabilities, of the State of California, in the aggregate of five hundred million dollars ($500,000,000), in the manner provided in this chapter. That debt or debts, liability or liabilities,…

The committee may determine whether or not it is necessary or desirable to issue any bonds authorized under this chapter, and if so, the amount of bonds then to be issued and sold. The committee may authorize the Treasurer to sell all or any part of the bonds herein authorized at…

The moneys in the fund shall be used for the acquisition, construction, renovation, remodeling, and deferred maintenance of state youth and adult corrections facilities. (Added by Stats. 1986, Ch. 409, Sec. 1. Approved in Proposition 54 at the November 4, 1986, election.)

(a) All bonds herein authorized, which shall have been duly sold and delivered as herein provided, shall constitute valid and legally binding general obligations of the State of California, and the full faith and credit of the State of California is hereby pledged for the punctua…

There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund in the State Treasury for the purpose of this chapter such an amount as will equal the following: (a) That sum annually as will be necessary to pay the principal of and the interest on the bonds issued and sold pursuant to the pr…

For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this chapter, the Director of Finance may by executive order authorize the withdrawal from the General Fund of an amount or amounts not to exceed the amount of the unsold bonds which the committee has by resolution authorized to b…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this bond act, or of the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of Part 3 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code), if the Treasurer sells bonds pursuant to this bond act that include a bond coun…

All proceeds from the sale of bonds, except those derived from premiums and accrued interest, shall be available for the purpose provided in Section 7306 but shall not be available for transfer to the General Fund to pay principal and interest on bonds. The money in the fund may …

Money in the fund may only be expended pursuant to appropriations by the Legislature. (Added by Stats. 1986, Ch. 409, Sec. 1. Approved in Proposition 54 at the November 4, 1986, election.)