It sounds like California Penal Code 496(a) and according to one website it's a maximum one year sentence.
yes a one stroke penalty
Yes, if it is not an insulated wire. If it is bare copper it is always ground. But the hot and neutral wire are also copper, they are just insulated.
How deep do they put telephone poles in the ground
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In the ground really
Copper is an element. It is a natural mineral found in the ground. It is extracted from the ground by mining similar to the mining of gold or iron.
If you mean 2 bare copper wires those are the ground wires. Tie them together and then connect the light fixture ground wire which will be green or bare copper to those ground wires.
If you mean a bare copper wire, that is the "ground" wire.
As nuggets, on the ground.
# 10 bare copper.
#4 bare copper connected to two 8' copper ground rods 6" apart driven into the ground.
The ground in an electric circuit is the brown copper wire.