Cal Pen Code § 529 (2004)
§ 529. Performance of certain acts in false character
Every person who falsely personates another in either his private
or official capacity, and in such assumed character either:
1. Becomes bail or surety for any party in any proceeding
whatever, before any court or officer authorized to take such bail or surety;
2. Verifies, publishes, acknowledges, or proves, in the name
of another person, any written instrument, with intent that the same may be
recorded, delivered, or used as true; or,
3. Does any other act whereby, if done by the person falsely
personated, he might, in any event, become liable to any suit or prosecution,
or to pay any sum of money, or to incur any charge, forfeiture, or penalty, or
whereby any benefit might accrue to the party personating, or to any other
person;
Is punishable by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($
10,000), or by imprisonment in the state prison, or in a county jail not
exceeding one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.