Throwing objects at trains, buses, or vessels
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Every person who throws, hurls, or projects a stone or other hard substance, or shoots a missile, at a train, locomotive, railway car, caboose, cable railway car, street railway car, or bus or at a steam vessel or watercraft used for carrying passengers or freight on any of the waters within or bordering on this state, is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year, or in a , or by fine not exceeding two thousand dollars ($2,000), or by both such fine and imprisonment.
History: Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 1092, Sec. 248. Effective September 27, 1983. Operative January 1, 1984, by Sec. 427 of Ch. 1092.
Simplified explanation
Willfully throwing a hard object or shooting a missile at a train, bus, or passenger or freight vessel is punishable by county jail up to one year, state prison, or a fine up to $2,000.