California Legal Codes and Statutes

§ 649

Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 32.

Any person engaged in the transportation of persons by taxicab or other means of conveyance who knowingly misdirects a prospective guest of any hotel, inn, boardinghouse or lodginghouse or knowingly takes such a prospective guest to a hotel, inn, boardinghouse or lodginghouse different from that of his instructions from such prospective guest is guilty of a misdemeanor.

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Cal. Pen. Code § 649 (2026)
https://ca.codecond.com/codes/pen/part-1-of-crimes-and-punishments/title-15-miscellaneous-crimes/chapter-2-of-other-and-miscellaneous-offenses/section-649

Other sections in Chapter 2 - Of Other and Miscellaneous Offenses

§ 639§ 639a§ 640§ 640.2§ 640.5§ 640.6§ 640.7§ 640.8§ 640a§ 640b…§ 653s§ 653t§ 653u§ 653v§ 653w§ 653x§ 653y§ 653z§ 653.1§ 653.2

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