Official text prohibited actmental stateif conditionpenaltylegal term
Every person who converts real estate of the value of less than two hundred fifty dollars ($250) into personal property by severance from the realty of another, and with felonious intent to do so steals, takes, and carries away that property is guilty of petty theft and is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year, or by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both that fine and imprisonment.
History: Amended by Stats. 2009, 3rd Ex. Sess., Ch. 28, Sec. 19. (SB 18 3x) Effective January 25, 2010.
Simplified explanation
Stealing property worth less than $250 by severing it from someone else's real estate is petty theft, punishable by up to one year in county jail, a fine up to $1,000, or both.