§ 497
Bringing stolen property into the state
Official text prohibited actmental stateif conditionpenaltylegal term
Every person who, in another state or country steals or the property of another, or receives such property knowing it to have been stolen or embezzled, and brings the same into this state, may be convicted and punished in the same manner as if such larceny, or embezzlement, or receiving, had been committed in this state.
History: Amended by Stats. 1905, Ch. 554.
Simplified explanation
A person who steals or embezzles property in another state or country, or receives it knowing it was stolen, and brings it into California may be punished as if the crime happened in California.