Legal Question in Criminal Law in California

Re: Battery on a Sports Official

Battery can be both a crime and a tort (a civil claim). I assume you're looking for the crime.

First I'll list Battery to a Sports Official and then Battery.

Penal Code Section 243.8. (a) When a battery is committed against a sports official

immediately prior to, during, or immediately following an

interscholastic, intercollegiate, or any other organized amateur or

professional athletic contest in which the sports official is

participating, and the person who commits the offense knows or

reasonably should know that the victim is engaged in the performance

of his or her duties, the offense shall be punishable by a fine not

exceeding two thousand dollars ($2,000), or by imprisonment in the

county jail not exceeding one year, or by both that fine and

imprisonment.

(b) For purposes of this section, "sports official" means any

individual who serves as a referee, umpire, linesman, or who serves

in a similar capacity but may be known by a different title or name

and is duly registered by, or a member of, a local, state, regional,

or national organization engaged in part in providing education and

training to sports officials.

Penal Code Section 242. A battery is any willful and unlawful use of force or violence

upon the person of another.