Embezzlement by public and corporate officers
Official text prohibited actmental stateif conditionpenaltylegal term
Every officer of this state, or of any county, city, city and county, or other municipal corporation or subdivision thereof, and every deputy, clerk, or servant of that officer, and every officer, director, trustee, clerk, servant, or agent of any association, society, or corporation (public or private), who fraudulently appropriates to any use or purpose not in the due and lawful execution of that person’s trust, any property in his or her possession or under his or her control by virtue of that trust, or secretes it with a fraudulent intent to appropriate it to that use or purpose, is guilty of embezzlement.
History: Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 787, Sec. 13. Effective January 1, 2003.
Simplified explanation
Public officers, their deputies and staff, and officers or agents of associations or corporations who fraudulently take or hide property they hold in trust are guilty of embezzlement; this section states no punishment.