CALIFORNIA CODES
PENAL CODE SECTION 529 Manufacture, Sale, or Possession of False
Birth Certificate or Baptismal Certificate

529a. Every person who manufactures, produces, sells, offers, or
transfers to another any document purporting to be either a
certificate of birth or certificate of baptism, knowing such document
to be false or counterfeit and with the intent to deceive, is guilty
of a crime, and upon conviction therefor, shall be punished by
imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed one year, or by
imprisonment in the state prison. Every person who offers, displays,
or has in his or her possession any false or counterfeit certificate
of birth or certificate of baptism, or any genuine certificate of
birth which describes a person then living or deceased, with intent
to represent himself or herself as another or to conceal his or her
true identity, is guilty of a crime, and upon conviction therefor,
shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed
one year.