§ 146

Amended by Stats. 1990, Ch. 350, Sec. 11.

Every public officer, or person pretending to be a public officer, who, under the pretense or color of any process or other legal authority, does any of the following, without a regular process or other lawful authority, is guilty of a misdemeanor:

(a)Arrests any person or detains that person against his or her will.
(b)Seizes or levies upon any property.
(c)Dispossesses any one of any lands or

tenements.

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