California Law (Last Updated: March 4, 2014) |
Vehicle Code - VEH |
Division 12. EQUIPMENT OF VEHICLES |
Chapter 5. Other Equipment |
ARTICLE 3. Safety Belts and Inflatable Restraint Systems |
Section 27317.
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A person who installs, reinstalls, rewires, tampers with, alters, or modifies for compensation, a vehicle's computer system or supplemental restraint system, including, but not limited to, the supplemental restraint system's on-board system performance indicators, so that it falsely indicates the supplemental restraint system is in proper working order, or who knowingly distributes or sells a previously deployed air bag or previously deployed air bag component that will no longer meet the original equipment manufacturing form or function for proper operation, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to five thousand dollars ($5,000) or by imprisonment in a county jail for up to one year, or by both the fine and imprisonment.
(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 97, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2013.)