section applies to corporations as well as individuals, and any person or corporation violating the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor, and any corporation violating this section shall forfeit its charter. 1905-644.

60. Every person who makes, offers, or accepts any bet or wager upon the result of any election, or upon the success ar failure of any person or candidate, or upon the number of votes to be cast, either in the aggregate or for any particular candidate, or upon the vote to be cast by any person, is guilty of a misde

meanor.

61. Every person who wilfully violates any of the provisions of the laws of this state relating to elections is, unless a different punishment for such violation is prescribed by this code, punishable by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in the state prison not exceeding five years, or by both.

62. Every person who prints any ticket not in conformity with the provisions of chapter eight of title two of part three of the Political Code, or who circulates or gives to another any ticket, knowing at the time that such ticket does not conform to the provisions of chapter eight of title two of part three of the Political Code, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 1905-645.

62a. Every person who intentionally writes, prints, posts, or distributes, or causes to be written, printed, posted, or distributed, any circular, pamphlet, letter, or poster which is designed or intended to injure or defeat any candidate for nomination or election to any public office by reflecting upon his personal character or political action, unless there appears upon such circular, pamphlet, letter, or poster, in a conspicious place, either the name of the chairman and secretary or the names of two officers at least of the political or other organization issuing the same, or the name and residence, with the street and number thereof, if any, of some voter of this state, and responsible therefor, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 1901-297.

62b. Every person who prints any circular, pamphlet, letter, or poster of the kind or character mentioned in section sixty-two a of this code, without adding thereto his name, showing the printing-office at which the same was printed, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 1901-298.

63b. Every person keeping a public house, saloon, or drinkingplace, whether licensed or unlicensed, who sells, gives away, or furnishes spirituous or malt liquors, wine, or any other intoxicant, on any part of any day set apart for any general or special election, in any election district or precinct in any county in the state where an election is in progress, during the hours when by law the polls are required to be kept open, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 1905-645

64. No person, otherwise competent as a witness, shall be disqualified or excused from testifying concerning any of the offenses enumerated and prescribed in this title, on the ground that such testimony may criminate himself; but no prosecution can afterwards be had against such witness for any such offense concerning which he testified for the prosecution. 1891-185.

64b. 1. It shall be unlawful for any person circulating, as principal or agent, or having charge or control of the circulation of, or obtaining signatures to, any petition authorized or provided for by the constitution or laws of the State of California regulating the inititative, referendum or recall to misrepresent or make any false statement concerning the contents, purport or effect of any such petition to any person who signs, or who desires to sign, or who is requested to sign, or who makes inquiries with reference to any such petition, or to whom any such petition is presented for his or her signature.

2. It shall be unlawful for any person to willfully or knowingly circulate, publish or exhibit any false statement or misrepresentation concerning the contents, purport or effect of any petetion mentioned in this section for the purpose of obtaining any signature to any such petition or for the purpose of persuading any person to sign any such petition.

3. It shall be unlawful for any person to file in the office of the clerk or other officer provided by law to receive such filing, any petition mentioned in this section to which is attached, apended or subscribed any signature which the person so filing such petition knows it to be false or fraudulent or not the genuine signature of the person purporting to sign such petition or whose name is attached, appended, or subscribed thereto.

4. It shall be unlawful for any person to circulate, or cause to be circulated, any petition mentioned in this section, knowing the same to contain false, forged or fictitious names.

5. It shall be unlawful for any person to make any false affidavit concerning any petition mentioned in this section or the signatures appended thereto.

6. It shall be unlawful for any public official or employee knowingly to make any false return, certification or affidavit, concerning any petition mentioned in this section, or the signatures appended thereto.

7. It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly sign his own name more than once to any petition mentioned in this act, or to sign his name to any such petition knowing himself at the time of such signing not to be qualified to sign the same.

8. Any person, either as principal or agent, violating any or the provisions of this section is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison, or in a county jail, not exceeding two years, or by fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or by both. 1915-55.

642. All the provisions of sections forty to sixty-four of this code, both inclusive, shall apply with like force and affect to elections, known and designated as primary elections, held and conducted under official supervision pursuant to law and to registration therefor, as to other elections, whether the word "primary" be used in con with the wond "oloation” or “elections" used.

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67%. [New.] Giving or Offering Bribe Misdemeanor. person who gives or offers any bribe to any ministerial officer, employee, or appointee of the State of California, county or city therein or political subdivision thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. (In effect 91 days from and after May 15, 1929. Stats. Penal Code, 1929. 1929, Chap. 555.)

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67. Every person who gives or offers any bribe to any executive officer of this state, with intent to influence him in respect to any act, decision, vote, opinion, or other proceeding as such officer is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison not less than one nor more than fourteen years, and is disqualified from holding any office in this state.

68. Every executive officer or person elected or appointed to an executive office, who asks, receives, or agrees to receive, any bribe, upon any agreement or understanding that his vote, opinion, or action upon any matter then pending, or which may be brought before him in his offical capacity, shall be influenced thereby, is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison not less than one nor more than fourteen years; and, in addition thereto, forfeits his office, and is forever disqualified from holding any office in this state.

69. Every person who attempts, by means of any threat or violence, to deter or prevent an executive officer from performing any duty imposed upon such officer by law, or who knowingly resists, by the use of force or violence, such officer, in the performance of his duty, is punishable by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, and imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding five

vears.

70. Every executive or ministerial officer who knowingly asks receives any emolument, gratuity, or reward, or any promise ereof, excepting such as may be authorized by law, for doing y official act, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 1874—423.

71. Every officer or person prohibited by the laws of this state om making or being interested in contracts, or from becoming vendor or purchaser at sales, or from purchasing scrip, or other evidences of indebtedness, who violates any of the provisions of such laws, is punishable by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in the state prison not more than five years, and is forever disqualified from holding any office in this state.

72. Every person who, with intent to defraud, presents for allowance or for payment to any state board or officer, or to any county, town, city, ward, or village board or officer, authorized to allow or pay the same if genuine, any false or fraudulent claim, bill, account, voucher, or writing, is guilty of felony.

73. Every person who gives or offers any gratuity or reward, in consideration that he or any other person shall be appointed to any public office, or shall be permitted to exercise or discharge the duties thereof, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

74. Every public officer who, for any gratuity or reward, appoints another person to a public office, or permits another person to exercise or discharge any of the duties of his office, is punishable by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, and, in addition thereto, forfeits his office and is forever disqualified from holding any office in this state.

74a. Every officer of this state, of any county, city and county, city, or township therein, who accepts, keeps, retains or diverts for his own use or the use of any other person any part of the salary or fees allowed by law to his deputy, clerk, or other subordinate officer, is guilty of a felony. 1905-646.

75. Every person who willfully and knowingly intrudes himself into any public office to which he has not been elected or appointed, and every person who, having been an executive officer, willfully exercises any of the functions of his office after his term has expired, and a successor has been elected or appointed and has qualified, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

76. Every officer whose office is abolished by law, or who, after the expiration of the time for which he may be appointed or elected, or after he has resigned or been legally removed from office, willfully and unlawfully withholds or detains from his successor, or other person entitled thereto, the records, papers, documents, or other writings appertaining or belonging to his office, or mutilates, destroys or takes away the same, or willfully and unlawfully withholds or detains from his successor, or other person entitled thereto, any money or property in his custody as such officer, is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison not less than one nor more than ten years. 1905-646.

77. The various provisions of this chapter applying to administrative and ministerial officers, in the same manner as if they were mentioned therein.

81. Every person who willfully, and by force or fraud, prevents the legislature of this state, or either of the houses composing it, or any of the members thereof, from meeting or organizing, is guilty of felony.

82. Every person who willfully disturbs the legislature of this state, or either of the houses composing it, while in session, or who commits any disorderly conduct in the immediate view and presence of either house, tending to interrupt its proceedings or impair the respect due to its authority, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

83. Every person who fraudulently alters the draft of any bill or resolution which has been presented to either of the houses composing the legislature, to be passed or adopted, with intent to procure it to be passed or adopted by either house, or certified by the presiding officer of either house, in language different from that intended by such house, is guilty of felony.

84. Every person who fraudulently alters the enrolled copy of any bill or resolution which has been passed or adopted by the legislature of this state, with intent to procure it to be approved