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Commenly Broken Laws in California

  • Underaged Smoking

    Underaged Smoking
    the purchase and smoking of tobacco by a person under the age of 18 is illegal and the vendor may suffer a fine for sellinf the under aged person tabacco products.
    New Underage Smoking Law: Ban on all tabacco-brand sponsorship of sports and entertainment event. -requires larger health warnings in smokeless tabacco advertising and products. -Prvides a strong federal enforcement and penalties against retailers selling tobacco products to minors.
  • its illegal to speed

    its illegal to speed
    no person shall drive on a highway at a speed greaster than is reasonable or prudent having due regard for weather, the surface and width of, the highway, and in no event at a speed which endangers the safety of persons or property.
  • Public Drunkifacation

    Public Drunkifacation
    in 1968, Powell vs. Texas challenged the law of public intoxication to the Supreme Court, saying that it was cruel and unusual to have such a law, Supreme Court ruled saying that it was not cruel and unusaul. Misdemeanor, California Penal Code 647 describes public intoxication as someone who displays intoxication to liquor, drugs, or controlled substances.
  • littering

    littering
    the litter control act came into affect
  • Underaged Drinking

    Underaged Drinking
    National Minimum Age Act of 1984 withholds revenue from state that allow the purchse of alcohol by anyone under the age of 21.
  • riding a bike without a helmet

    riding a bike without a helmet
    in california there is no federal law against rideing a bike without a helmet. there is only the state law that mandates that one must be worn until one has reached the age of 18.
  • talking and driving

    talking and driving
    The first law prohibits all drivers from using a handheld wireless telephone while operating a motor vehicle. Motorists 18 and over may use a “hands-free device. The second law prohibits drivers under the age of 18 from using a wireless telephone or hands-free device while operating a motor vehicle
  • texting and driving

    texting and driving
    The new Wireless Communications Device Law makes it an infraction to write, send, or read text-based communication on an electronic wireless communications device, such as a cell phone, while driving a motor vehicle.
  • Vandalism

    Vandalism
    Graffiti or other inscribed material" refers to "any unauthorized inscription, word, figure, mark, or design that is written, marked, etched, scratched, drawn or painted on real or personal property
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