§ 186.26
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(a)Any person who solicits or recruits another to actively participate in a criminal street gang, as defined in subdivision
(f)of Section 186.22, with the intent that the person solicited or recruited participate in a pattern of criminal street gang activity, as defined in subdivision
(e)of Section 186.22, or with the intent that the person solicited or recruited promote, further, or assist in any felonious conduct by members of the criminal street gang, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for 16 months, or two or three years.
(b)Any person who threatens another person with physical violence on two or more separate occasions within any 30-day period with the intent to coerce, induce, or solicit any person to actively participate in a criminal street gang, as defined in subdivision
(f)of Section 186.22, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three, or four years.
(c)Any person who uses physical violence to coerce, induce, or solicit another person to actively participate in any criminal street gang, as defined in subdivision
(f)of Section 186.22, or to prevent the person from leaving a criminal street gang, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, four, or five years.
(d)If the person solicited, recruited, coerced, or threatened pursuant to subdivision (a), (b), or
(c)is a minor, an additional term of three years shall be imposed in addition and consecutive to the penalty prescribed for a violation of any of these subdivisions.
(e)Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit prosecution under any other provision of law.