California Penal Code Statutory History
California Penal Code Statutory History
Penal Code: The current Penal statutes of California originated with the 1872 Penal Code drafted by California Code Commissioners: Creed Haymond, John Burch, and John McKune. This early Code consisted of a systematic classification of public wrongs or offenses against the State, and the laws for their prevention or for the punishment of those public wrongs or offenses. The 1872 Code was based on California’s earlier laws, such as the 1851 Criminal Practice Act and common law; it was also inspired by criminal code statutes enacted already by other states, such as Kansas, Louisiana, and New Jersey.
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Penal Code Sections
PNL Code Section 27: Originally contained in Field’s Draft NY Pen., section 15; NY Penal Code, section 16.
PNL Code Section 381b: Enacted in 1983.
PNL Code Section 381c: First enacted in 2009.
PNL Code Section 496: Originally enacted in 1872.
PNL Code Section 632: Derived from former Penal Code section 653h, enacted in 1941.
PNL Code Section 637.7: Enacted in 1998.
PNL Code Section 641.3: Enacted in 1989.
PNL Code Section 647: Enacted as former section 647 in the 1872 codification of the Penal Code.
PNL Code Section 778a: Originally enacted in 1905.
PNL Code Section 851.6: Enacted in 1969 by Chapter 1117.
PNL Code Section 11166: Derived from former Penal Code sections dating to 1963.
PNL Code Section 12031: Derived from former Penal Code section 12031.5 enacted in 1970.
PNL Code Section 12050: Derived from former uncodified section 6 of Chapter 145, Statutes of 1917.
