Penal Code Section 487
Ca penal code 487 2017 grand theft is theft committed in any of the following cases.
Penal code section 487. California penal code section 487. Under penal code 487 pc california law defines the crime of grand theft as unlawfully taking someone else s property when the property is valued at 950 00 or more. A when the money labor or real or personal property taken is of a value exceeding nine hundred fifty dollars 950 except as provided in subdivision b.
Penal code 487d2 under penal code 487 d 2 grand theft firearm in california is a form of 487 pc grand theft in which the property taken is a firearm. A every person who steals takes or carries away cargo of another if the cargo taken is of a value exceeding nine hundred fifty dollars 950 except as provided in sections 487 487a and 487d is guilty of grand theft. Grand theft under california penal code section 487 pc covers theft offenses that would not qualify as petty theft namely grand theft charges apply when.
The theft involves a loss in excess of 950 the item stolen is a car or a gun or the item stolen was physically and directly taken off of a person. A when the money labor or real or personal property taken is of a value exceeding nine hundred fifty dollars 950 except as provided in subdivision b. A every person who feloniously steals takes carries leads or drives away any horse mare gelding any bovine animal any caprine animal mule jack jenny sheep lamb hog sow boar gilt barrow or pig which is the personal property of another or who fraudulently appropriates that same property which has been entrusted to him or her or who knowingly and designedly by any false or fraudulent representation or pretense defrauds any other person of that same property or.
Every person who converts real estate of the value of less than two hundred fifty dollars 250 into personal property by severance from the realty of another and with felonious intent to do so steals takes and carries away that property is guilty of petty theft and is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year or by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars 1 000 or by both that fine and imprisonment. If the property is valued at less than 950 00 the charge can only be filed as the less serious offense of petty theft. Grand theft is theft committed in any of the following cases.
1 prior to the passage of the voter initiative proposition 47 in november of 2014 any theft of a firearm was considered grand theft in california.