SECTIONS 18640 - California Statutes

ELECTIONS CODE

SECTION 18640

18640. Any person working for the proponent or proponents of an
initiative or referendum measure or recall petition who solicits
signatures to qualify the measure or petition and accepts any payment
therefor and who fails to surrender the measure or petition to the
proponents thereof for filing is punishable by a fine not exceeding
five thousand dollars ($5,000), or by imprisonment in the state
prison for 16 months or two or three years or in a county jail not
exceeding one year, or by both the fine and imprisonment.