Wrecking a common carrier vehicle
Official text prohibited actmental stateif conditionpenaltylegal term
Every person who unlawfully throws, hurls or projects at a vehicle operated by a common carrier, while such vehicle is either in motion or stationary, any rock, stone, brick, bottle, piece of wood or metal or any other missile of any kind or character, or does any unlawful act, with the intention of wrecking such vehicle and doing bodily harm, and thus wrecks the same and causes bodily harm, is guilty of a and punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 for two, four, or six years.
History: Amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 15, Sec. 287. (AB 109) Effective April 4, 2011. Operative October 1, 2011, by Sec. 636 of Ch. 15, as amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 39, Sec. 68.
Simplified explanation
Throwing a missile at, or doing an unlawful act to, a common carrier vehicle to wreck it and cause bodily harm, and doing so, is a felony punishable under Section 1170(h) for two, four, or six years.