California Penal Code

The California Penal Code is the primary statute governing criminal law, criminal procedure, penal institutions and the execution of sentences in California, originally enacted in February 1872 as one of the original four California codes and based on a model penal code drafted by a New York code commission in 1865. It is organized into six parts covering substantive crimes such as offenses against the state, violent crimes and property crimes, rules of criminal procedure, corrections and imprisonment, criminal investigation and law enforcement training, peace officer memorials, and weapons and firearms. California drug and vehicle traffic laws are kept in separate codes rather than folded into the Penal Code. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/