Criminal prosecution: statutes of limitation.

Existing law prescribes the time after the commission of a crime in which a criminal action is required to be commenced, referred to as a statute of limitation. Existing law also prescribes situations in which a statute of limitation is tolled or extended, including tolling the time to prosecute until the discovery or reasonable discovery of an offense involving the construction or maintenance of a fire protection system in any structure with specified intent so as to threaten the safety of any occupant or user of the structure in the event of a fire. This bill would toll the statute of limitation for specified offenses, including the willful or negligent cutting, destroying, mutilating, or removing of plant material growing upon state or county highway rights-of-way or the unlawful importation, transportation, possession, or release into this state of specified wild animals, until the offenses have been discovered or could have reasonably been discovered.