Official text prohibited actmental stateif conditionpenaltylegal term
Any person who, with intent to commit crime, enters, either by day or by night, any building, whether inhabited or not, and opens or to open any vault, safe, or other secure place by use of acetylene torch or electric arc, burning bar, thermal lance, oxygen lance, or any other similar device capable of burning through steel, concrete, or any other solid substance, or by use of nitroglycerine, dynamite, gunpowder, or any other explosive, is guilty of a and, upon conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 for a term of three, five, or seven years.
History: Amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 15, Sec. 357. (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
Entering any building with intent to commit a crime and opening or trying to open a vault or safe with a torch, burning device, or explosive is a felony punishable by three, five, or seven years.