SECTIONS 300-310 - California Statutes

HARBORS AND NAVIGATION CODE

SECTION 300-310

300. A person who willfully and maliciously cuts, breaks, injures,
sinks, or sets adrift a vessel of less than ten gross tons that is
the property of another is guilty of a misdemeanor.

301. A person who willfully and maliciously cuts, breaks, or
injures a vessel of ten gross tons and upwards that is the property
of another is guilty of a misdemeanor.

302. A person who willfully and maliciously sinks or sets adrift a
vessel of ten gross tons and upwards that is the property of another
is guilty of a felony.

303. A person who willfully and maliciously burns, injures, or
destroys any part of, or the whole of, a pile or raft of wood, plank,
boards, or other lumber, or cuts loose or sets adrift the raft or
part of the raft, that is the property of another, is guilty of a
misdemeanor.

304. A person in command or charge of a vessel, who, within this
state, willfully wrecks, sinks, or otherwise injures or destroys it
or any of its cargo, or willfully permits the same to be wrecked,
sunk, or otherwise injured or destroyed, with intent to prejudice or
defraud a person, is guilty of a felony.

305. A person, other than one described in Section 304 who is
guilty of any act specified in that section is guilty of a felony.

306. A person who prepares, makes, or subscribes a false or
fraudulent manifest, invoice, bill of lading, ship's register, or
protest, with intent to defraud another, is guilty of a felony.

307. A person who moors a vessel to, or hangs on with a vessel to a
buoy or beacon, except a designated mooring buoy, or who willfully
removes, damages, or destroys, a buoy or beacon, placed by competent
authority in any navigable waters of this state, is guilty of a
misdemeanor.

308. A person who moors a vessel of any kind, to a buoy or beacon,
except a designated mooring buoy, placed in the waters of the state
by authority of the United States Coast Guard, or who in any manner
hangs on to the same, with a vessel, or who willfully removes,
damages, or destroys any such buoy or beacon, or any part of the buoy
or beacon, or who cuts down, removes, damages, or destroys a beacon
erected on land in this state by that authority, is, for every
offense, guilty of a misdemeanor.

309. A person found guilty of a misdemeanor violation as provided
in this chapter shall be subject to a fine not to exceed one thousand
dollars ($1,000) or imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed
six months, or both that fine and imprisonment.

310. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person found
guilty of a felony violation as provided in this chapter shall be
subject to a fine not to exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000) or
imprisonment in the state prison for 16 months, two or three years,
or both that fine and imprisonment.