GENERAL PROVISIONS
Cal. PEN § 666.5
California Statutes
(
a) Every person who, having been previously convicted of a felony violation of
Section of the Vehicle Code, or felony grand theft involving an automobile in violation of subdivision (
d) of
Section or former subdivision (3) of
Section 487, as that
section read prior to being amended by
Section of
Chapter of the Statutes of 1993, or felony grand theft involving a motor vehicle, as defined in
Section of the Vehicle Code, any trailer, as defined in
Section of the Vehicle Code, any special construction equipment, as defined in
Section of the Vehicle Code, or any vessel, as defined in
Section of the Harbors and Navigation Code in violation of former
Section 487h, or a felony violation of
Section 496d regardless of whether or not the person actually served a prior prison term for those offenses, is subsequently convicted of any of these offenses shall be punished by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (
h) of
Section for two, three, or four years, or a fine of ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or both the fine and the imprisonment. (
b) For the purposes of this section, the terms “special construction equipment” and “vessel” are limited to motorized vehicles and vessels. (
c) The existence of any fact which would bring a person under subdivision (
a) shall be alleged in the information or indictment and either admitted by the defendant in open court, or found to be true by the jury trying the issue of guilt or by the court where guilt is established by plea of guilty or nolo contendere or by trial by the court sitting without a jury.