CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill
No. 1157

Introduced by Assembly Member Kalra

February 20, 2025

An act to amend Section 3506 of the Civil Code, relating to nuisance.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1157, as introduced, Kalra. Nuisance: motion pictures: enforcement.
Existing law defines a nuisance as anything injurious to health, indecent or offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property, as specified. Under existing law, a nuisance includes the exhibition of a motion picture in which an intentional killing of, or cruelty to, a human being or an animal is shown if that action actually occurred in the production of the motion picture. Existing law authorizes the district attorney or the Attorney General to commence an action in equity to abate and prevent this nuisance and to perpetually enjoin the person conducting or maintaining it, as provided.
This bill would specify that this authorization also applies to the county counsel.
Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  
Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 3506 of the Civil Code is amended to read:
3506. Whenever there is reasonable cause to believe that a nuisance as defined in this title is kept, maintained maintained, or is in existence in any county, the district attorney attorney, county counsel, or the Attorney General, in the name of the people of the State of California, shall, on a proper showing, commence an action in equity to abate and prevent the nuisance and to perpetually enjoin the person conducting or maintaining it, and the owner, lessee lessee, or agent of the building, or place, in or upon which the nuisance exists, from maintaining or permitting it. As used herein, a proper showing to commence an action under this title must be based upon evidence independent of the motion picture itself that intentional killing of, or cruelty to, a human being or an animal actually occurred in the production of the motion picture for the purpose of such that production.