{"data":{"id":"us-ca/pen-642","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"PEN § 642","heading":"","body":"Every person who wilfully and maliciously removes and keeps possession of and appropriates for his own use articles of value from a dead human body, the theft of which articles would be petty theft is guilty of a misdemeanor, or if the theft of the articles would be grand theft, a felony. This section shall not apply to articles removed at the request or direction of one of the persons enumerated in section 7111 of the Health and Safety Code.","path":["Penal Code - PEN","PART 1. OF CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS [25. - 680.4.]","TITLE 15. MISCELLANEOUS CRIMES [626. - 653.75.]","CHAPTER 2. Of Other and Miscellaneous Offenses [639. - 653.2.]"],"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":"d405b10cac6fb52dee4595afb640ad65299a6ca76e4ab8889060d731cf330143","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/pen-641.6","next":"us-ca/pen-643"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}