Section 32381 Of Article 9. Prohibited Activities From California Education Code >> Division 1. >> Title 1. >> Part 19. >> Chapter 3. >> Article 9.
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. Any person who prepares, manufactures, or prints, or who
offers to prepare, manufacture, or print, for a fee or other
compensation, any document purporting to be a degree or diploma
without written authorization to do so from the school authority
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. As used in this section, "school
authority" means any of the following:
(a) A governing board of a school district that issued or reissued
the degree or diploma, as the case may be.
(b) A private school that issued or reissued the degree or
diploma, as the case may be.
(c) Any public or private college, university, or other
institution of higher learning that issued or reissued the degree or
diploma, as the case may be.
Nothing in this section shall prohibit a person from reproducing,
or having reproduced, for his personal use a degree or diploma issued
to him by a school authority.