Section 5.10. Other limitations on applicability of this chapter


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  • 1.   Except   as  otherwise  provided,  the  procedure  governing  the
      accusation, prosecution, conviction  and  punishment  of  offenders  and
      offenses  is not regulated by this chapter but by the criminal procedure
      law.
        2. This chapter does not affect any power conferred by  law  upon  any
      court-martial  or  other  military authority or officer to prosecute and
      punish conduct and offenders violating military codes or laws.
        3. This chapter does not bar, suspend, or otherwise affect  any  right
      or  liability to damages, penalty, forfeiture or other remedy authorized
      by law to be recovered or enforced in  a  civil  action,  regardless  of
      whether the conduct involved in such civil action constitutes an offense
      defined in this chapter.
        4.  Sections  120.45,  120.50, 120.55, 120.60 and 240.25, subdivisions
      two and three of section 240.26, and sections 240.70 and 240.71 of  this
      chapter  (a) do not apply to conduct which is otherwise lawful under the
      provisions of the National Labor Relations Act as amended, the  National
      Railway Labor Act as amended, or the Federal Employment Labor Management
      Act  as  amended,  and  (b)  do  not bar any conduct, including, but not
      limited  to,  peaceful  picketing  or  other   peaceful   demonstration,
      protected from legal prohibition by the federal and state constitutions.