{"data":{"id":"us-ca/pen-11418.1","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"PEN § 11418.1","heading":"","body":"Any person who gives, mails, sends, or causes to be sent any false or facsimile of a weapon of mass destruction to another person, or places, causes to be placed, or possesses any false or facsimile of a weapon of mass destruction, with the intent to cause another person to fear for his or her own safety, or for the personal safety of others, is guilty of a misdemeanor. If the person’s conduct causes another person to be placed in sustained fear, the person shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year or in the state prison for 16 months, or two or three years and by a fine of not more than two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000). For purposes of this section, “sustained fear” has the same meaning as in Section 11418.5.","path":["Penal Code - PEN","PART 4. PREVENTION OF CRIMES AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS [11006. - 14315.]","TITLE 1. INVESTIGATION AND CONTROL OF CRIMES AND CRIMINALS [11006. - 11482.]","CHAPTER 3. Prevention and Abatement of Unlawful Activities [11200. - 11482.]","ARTICLE 4.6. The Hertzberg-Alarcon California Prevention of Terrorism Act [11415. - 11419.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"99c1bccfe79a437ad8c5194886443285afe84883dcccadaa2d523c8358f1f11f","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/pen-11418","next":"us-ca/pen-11418.5"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}