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§ 619. Disclosing contents of telegraphic or telephonic messages. Every person who willfully discloses the contents of a telegraphic or telephonic message, or any part thereof, addressed to another person, without the permission of such person, unless directed so to do by the lawful order of a court, is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison not exceeding five years, or in the county jail not exceeding one year, or by fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or by both fine and imprisonment. [Amendment approved

1905; Stats. 1905, p. 690.]

Disclosing contents of message: See post, § 640.

Legislation § 619. 1. Enacted February 14, 1872 (Field's Draft, § 718, N. Y. Pen. Code, § 642); based on Stats. 1862, p. 289, §§ 1-5. 2. Amended by Code Amdts. 1880, p. 38, adding "unless directed so to do by the lawful order of a court" after "without the permission of such person."

3. Amendment by Stats. 1901, p. 475; unconstitutional. See note, § 5, ante.

4. Amended by Stats. 1905, p. 690, adding "or telephonic" after "telegraphic."

§ 620. Altering telegraphic or telephonic messages. Every person who willfully alters the purport, effect, or meaning of a telegraphic or telephonic message to the injury of another, is punishable as provided in the preceding section. [Amendment approved 1905; Stats. 1905, p. 690.] Legislation § 620. 1. Enacted February 14, 1872; based on Stats. 1862, p. 288, § 1.

2. Amendment by Stats. 1901, p. 475; unconstitutional. See note, § 5, ante.

3. Amended by Stats. 1905, p. 690, adding "or telephonic" after "telegraphic."

§ 621. Opening telegraphic or telephonic messages. Every person not connected with any telegraph or telephone office who, without the authority or consent of the person to whom the same may be directed, willfully opens any sealed envelope inclosing a telegraphic or telephonic message, addressed to another person, with the purpose of learning the contents of such message, or who fraudulently represents another person and thereby procures to be delivered to himself any telegraphic or telephonic message addressed to such other person, with the intent to use, destroy, or detain the same from the person entitled to receive such message, is punishable as provided in section six hundred and nineteen. [Amendment approved 1905; Stats. 1905, p. 690.]

Legislation § 621. 1. Enacted February 14, 1872 (N. Y. Pen. Code, § 642); based on Stats. 1862, p. 289, § 5.

2. Amendment by Stats. 1901, p. 475; unconstitutional. See note, § 5, ante.

3. Amended by Stats. 1905, p. 690, (1) adding (a) "or telephone" after "telegraph," and (b) "or telephonic" after "telegraphic" in both instances; (2) changing "any other person" to "another person," in both instances; (3) omitting (a) "and" before “addressed to" in first instance, and (b) "or persons" after "from the person." § 622. Injuring works of art or improvements in any city, town, or village. Every person, not the owner thereof, who willfully injures, disfigures, or destroys any monument, work of art, or useful or ornamental improvement within the limits of any village, town, or city, or any shade-tree or ornamental plant growing therein, whether situated upon private ground or on any street, sidewalk, or public park or place, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Legislation § 622. Enacted February 14, 1872; based on Field's Draft, § 720, N. Y. Pen. Code, § 647.

§ 623. Mutilation of books, etc., in public libraries and museums. Every person who maliciously cuts, tears, defaces, breaks, or injures any book, map, chart, picture, engraving, statute, coin, model, apparatus, or other work of literature, art, mechanics, or object of curiosity, deposited in any public library, gallery, museum, collection, fair, or exhibition, is guilty of a misdemeanor. [Amendment approved 1901; Stats. 1901, p. 99.]

Legislation § 623. 1. Enacted February 14, 1872; based on Field's Draft, § 721, N. Y. Pen. Code, § 648.

2. Amended by Stats. 1901, p. 99, (1) omitting "or" before "mechanics," and (2) changing "felony" to "a misdemeanor" at end of section.

§ 62312. Willful detention of library books. Whoever willfully detains any book, newspaper, magazine, pamphlet, manuscript, or other property belonging to any public or incorporated library, reading-room, museum or other educational institution, for thirty days after notice in writing to return the same, given after the expiration of the time which by the rules of such institution such article or other property may be kept, is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be pun ished accordingly.

Legislation § 6232. Added by Stats. 1899, p. 97; becoming a law, under constitutional provision, without governor's approval.

§ 624. Breaking or obstructing gas or water pipes, etc. Every person who willfully breaks, digs up, obstructs, or injures any pipe or main for conducting gas or water, or any works erected for supplying buildings with gas or water, or any appurtenances or appendages therewith connected, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Legislation § 624. Enacted February 14, 1872; based on Field's Draft, § 625, N. Y. Pen. Code, § 639; Stats. 1861, p. 533, §§ 1, 2.

§ 625. Drawing water from works after they have been closed. Every person who, with intent to defraud or injure, opens or causes to be opened, or draws water from any stopcock or faucet by which the flow of water is controlled, after having been notified that the same has been closed or shut for specific cause, by order of competent authority, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Legislation § 625. Enacted February 14, 1872; based on Stats. 1861, p. 533, § 3.

§ 625a. Unlawful interferences with fire-alarm apparatus. Penalty. Any person who willfully and maliciously tampers with, molests, injures, or breaks any public fire-alarm apparatus, wire, or signal, or willfully and maliciously sends, gives, transmits, or sounds any false alarm of fire, by means of any public fire-alarm system or signal, is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail, not exceeding one year, or by a fine, not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Legislation § 625a. Added by Stats. 1903, p. 137.

TITLE XV.

Miscellaneous Crimes.

Chapter I. Violation of the Laws for the Preservation of Game and Fish. §§ 626-637f.

II. Other and Miscellaneous Offenses. §§ 638-653e.

CHAPTER I.

Violation of the Laws for the Preservation of Game and Fish.

§ 626.

Protection of ducks, geese, etc. Quail. Rabbits.

§ 626a. Protection of doves.

§ 626b. Nests or eggs.

§ 626c. Killing swans, pheasants, etc.

§ 626d. Bag limit: geese, ducks. Quail.

Rabbits.

§ 626e. Hunting female deer, spotted fawn, etc., misdemeanor. Hunters to retain portion of head bearing horns. "Spiked buck" defined.

§ 626f. Protection of deer. Reindeer.

§ 626g. Killing tree squirrels

§ 626h. Protection of deer.

from January 1 to September 1.

Affidavit of lawful killing. Tags. Fee.
Limit. Penalties.

After close of open season.

§ 6261. Limit of deer that may be killed.

§ 626j. Permitting more than one dog to track deer a misdemeanor.

§ 626k. Sale of wild game prohibited.

§ 6261. Live birds and animals for certain purposes.

§ 626m. Killing game birds at night a misdemeanor.

§ 626n. Use of animals as blinds.

§ 6260. Shooting from moving boats.

§ 626p. When sea brant may not be killed. Sea brant in district No. 1. § 626p. Killing beaver.

§ 626q. Penalty for killing sea otter.

§ 626r. No section of this number.

§ 626s. Protection of game birds in districts Nos. 24-29.

§ 627. Trespass upon inclosed or cultivated grounds a misdemeanor.

§ 627a. Certain game not to be shipped.

§ 627b. Shipments, limit of certain game.

§ 627c. Protection to song-birds and their nests.

§ 627d. Penalties. [Repealed.]

[Repealed.]

§ 628. Protection of shrimp. Spiny lobster. Crab. Abalone.

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Cat

Fish in pond or reservoir belonging

Disposition of fines.
Barracuda.
Razor clams.

Crabs. Fish defined. [Repealed.]

§ 628g. Shipping abalone meat prohibited. Penalty.

§ 628g. Salt-water perch.

§ 628h. Permission to plant fish and fish eggs.

§ 6281. Use of Chinese shrimp nets.

§ 629. Fish screens over ditch inlets.

Investigation as to necessity of

screens. Taking of evidence. Witness fees. Attendance of

witnesses. Deposition of witnesses. Penalty for refusing to maintain screen.

$630. Fish business without license misdemeanor.

$630a. Reports of wholesale fish dealers. Penalty.
$630b. Failure to produce register misdemeanor.
$631. Net, pound, cage, trap, etc., not to be used.
$631a. Penalty for violation.

8631b. Disposition of money from fines. Game-preservation fund. $631c. Penalty for violation.

$631d. License to raise elk, deer, etc., as a business. Fee.
$632. Protection of trout.

$632. Protection of steelhead-trout. Penalty. [Repealed.]
$632a. Shipment of trout. Penalty. Disposition of fines.
$632b. Sacramento perch.

§ 632b. Salmon or steelhead roe as bait prohibited.

§ 632b3. Use of salmon or steelhead roe as bait prohibited. [Repealed]. $632(4) Fishing through ice.

$633. Protection of golden trout. 634. Protection of salmon.

Salmon defined. Penalty.

Quinnat salmon. Steelhead trout.

$6344. Fishing near Santa Catalina limited to hook and line.

$635. Killing fish with explosives prohibited. Pollution of waters.

Penalty.

6354. Use of two-mesh fish net a misdemeanor.

$636. Regulation of use of nets, lines and seines.

§ 6361. Use of paranzella or trawl net.

$636a. Nets, seines, etc., prohibited.

Penalty.

§636b. Seining in Mokelumne river prohibited.

$637. Fishways provided over or around dams. To be kept free from obstructions. Penalty for violation. Hearing on necessity for fishway. Witnesses. Depositions.

$6374. Predatory animals.

$637a. Protection of wild birds.

$637b. Application of prohibition.

Game-birds enumerated.

637c. Seals in Santa Barbara Channel, protection of. $6371. Transportation of non-game birds.

$637e. Certificates giving right to take birds.

637f. Protection of nests.

§ 626. Protection of ducks, geese, etc. Quail. Rabbits. Every person who, between the first day of February and the fourteenth day of October, inclusive, of any year, hunts,. pursues, takes, kills or destroys, or has in his possession, any kind of wild duck, or goose, or brant, or mudhen, or gallinule, or Wilson snipe, or black breasted or golden plover, or yellowlegs; or who, at any time, takes, kills or destroys, or has in his possesssion, any rail, or wood duck, or wild pigeon, or any shore birds, except Wilson snipe, black breasted plover, or golden plover, or yellowlegs, or any sandhill crane, whooping crane or little brown crane; or who, between the first day of January and the fourteenth day of October, inclusive of any year, hunts, pursues, takes, kills or destroys, or has in his possession, any desert or valley quail, or cottontail or bush rabbit; or who, between the first day of December and the thirty-first day of August,

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