Section 594.3 Of Title 14. Malicious Mischief 594-625c From California Penal Code >> Title 14. >> Part 1.
594.3
. (a) Any person who knowingly commits any act of vandalism to
a church, synagogue, mosque, temple, building owned and occupied by
a religious educational institution, or other place primarily used as
a place of worship where religious services are regularly conducted
or a cemetery is guilty of a crime punishable by imprisonment in a
county jail for not exceeding one year or imprisonment pursuant to
subdivision (h) of Section 1170.
(b) Any person who knowingly commits any act of vandalism to a
church, synagogue, mosque, temple, building owned and occupied by a
religious educational institution, or other place primarily used as a
place of worship where religious services are regularly conducted or
a cemetery, which is shown to have been a hate crime and to have
been committed for the purpose of intimidating and deterring persons
from freely exercising their religious beliefs, is guilty of a felony
punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section
1170.
(c) For purposes of this section, "hate crime" has the same
meaning as Section 422.55.