SECTIONS 9050-9056 - California Statutes

GOVERNMENT CODE

SECTION 9050-9056

9050. Every person who wilfully, and by force or fraud, prevents
the Legislature, either of the houses composing it, or any of the
members thereof from meeting or organizing is guilty of a felony.

9051. Every person who wilfully disturbs the Legislature, or either
of the houses composing it, while in session, or who commits any
disorderly conduct in the immediate view and presence of either house
tending to interrupt its proceedings or impair the respect due to
its authority is guilty of a misdemeanor.

9051.5. As used in this article, "bill or resolution" includes a
constitutional amendment.

9052. Every person who fraudulently alters the draft of any bill or
resolution which has been presented to either of the houses
composing the Legislature for passage or adoption, with intent to
procure it to be passed or adopted by either house, or certified by
the presiding officer of either house, in language different from
that intended by such house, is guilty of a felony.

9053. Every person who fraudulently alters the enrolled copy of any
bill or resolution which has been passed or adopted by the
Legislature, with intent to procure it to be approved by the
Governor, certified by the Secretary of State, or printed or
published by the State in language different from that in which it
was passed or adopted by the Legislature is guilty of a felony.

9053.5. (a) Every person who intentionally, maliciously, with
knowledge of the falsity, and with intent to defame a particular
legislator, publishes or causes to be published any writing which
purports to be a facsimile of an actual bill or resolution, or any
part thereof, of the California Legislature, which is not an exact
copy of a bill or resolution, or part thereof, which has been
introduced in the Legislature, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(b) This section shall not apply to the print media, the
electronic media, or to news services.

9054. Every person who obtains, or seeks to obtain, money or other
thing of value from another person upon a pretense, claim, or
representation that he can or will improperly influence in any manner
the action of any member of a legislative body in regard to any vote
or legislative matter, is guilty of a felony. Upon the trial no
person otherwise competent as a witness may be excused from
testifying concerning the offense charged on the grounds that the
testimony may criminate himself, or subject him to public infamy. The
testimony shall not afterwards be used against him in any judicial
proceeding except for perjury in giving the testimony.

9055. Every member of the Legislature convicted of any crime
defined in this article, in addition to the punishment prescribed,
forfeits his office and is forever disqualified from holding any
office in the State.

9056. Any person who shall secure through his influence, knowingly
exerted for that purpose, the introduction of any bill, resolution or
amendment into the State Legislature and shall thereafter solicit or
accept from any person other than a person upon whose request he
secured such introduction, any pay or other valuable consideration
for preventing or attempting to prevent, the enactment or adoption of
such measure, while it retains its original purpose, shall be guilty
of a crime and upon conviction thereof shall be punishable by a fine
of not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000) or by imprisonment
in the county jail for not more than one year or in the state prison,
or by both such fine and imprisonment.