{"data":{"id":"us-ca/pen-539","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"PEN § 539","heading":"","body":"Every person who, with the intent to defraud, certifies that a person ordered by the court to participate in community service as a condition of probation has completed the number of hours of community service prescribed in the court order and the participant has not completed the prescribed number of hours, is guilty of a misdemeanor.","path":["Penal Code - PEN","PART 1. OF CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS [25. - 680.4.]","TITLE 13. OF CRIMES AGAINST PROPERTY [450. - 593g.]","CHAPTER 8. False Personation and Cheats [528. - 539.]"],"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":"f4b34b3cbce80043e67f68386c3a58a498172ad32ff4da6d2e4f5848dd0ee485","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/pen-538.5","next":"us-ca/pen-548"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}