Any person who is guilty of violating Section 1670 or 1671 is punishable as follows:
(a) If the act or failure to act causes the death of any person, a person violating this section is punishable by death or imprisonment in the state prison for life without possibility of parole. The penalty shall be determined pursuant to the provisions of Sections 190.3 and 190.4 of the Penal Code. If the act or failure to act causes great bodily injury to any person, a person violating this section is punishable by life imprisonment without possibility of parole.
(b) If the act or failure to act does not cause the death of, or great bodily injury to, any person, the person violating this section is punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of the Penal Code for two, four, or six years, by a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or by both that imprisonment and fine. However, if a person so acts or so fails to act with the intent to hinder, delay, or interfere with the preparation of the United States or of any state for defense or for war, or with the prosecution of war by the United States, or with the rendering of assistance by the United States to any other nation in connection with that nation’s defense, the person is punishable by a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000), imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of the Penal Code for three, five, or seven years, or by both that fine and imprisonment.
(Amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 15, Sec. 226. (AB 109) Effective April 4, 2011. Operative October 1, 2011, by Sec. 636 of Ch. 15, as amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 39, Sec. 68.)
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