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CA Bus & Prof Code § 17529.2 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 3 - REPRESENTATIONS TO THE PUBLIC|CHAPTER 1 - Advertising|ARTICLE 1.8 - Restrictions On Unsolicited Commercial E-mail Advertisers|Section 17529.2.

17529.2.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person or entity may not do any of the following:(a) Initiate or advertise in an unsolicited commercial e-mail advertisement from California or advertise in an unsolicited commercial e-mail advertisement sent from California.(b) Initiate or advertise in an unsolicited commercial e-mail advertisement to a California electronic mail address, or advertise in an unsolicited commercial e-mail advertisement sent to a California electronic mail address.(c) The provisions of this section are severable. If any provision of this section or its application is held invalid, that invalidity shall not affect any other provision or application that can be given effect without the invalid provision or application.(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 487, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 17529.3 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 3 - REPRESENTATIONS TO THE PUBLIC|CHAPTER 1 - Advertising|ARTICLE 1.8 - Restrictions On Unsolicited Commercial E-mail Advertisers|Section 17529.3.

17529.3.  Nothing in this article shall be construed to limit or restrict the adoption, implementation, or enforcement by a provider of Internet access service of a policy of declining to transmit, receive, route, relay, handle, or store certain types of electronic mail messages.(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 487, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 17529.4 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 3 - REPRESENTATIONS TO THE PUBLIC|CHAPTER 1 - Advertising|ARTICLE 1.8 - Restrictions On Unsolicited Commercial E-mail Advertisers|Section 17529.4.

17529.4.  (a) It is unlawful for any person or entity to collect electronic mail addresses posted on the Internet if the purpose of the collection is for the electronic mail addresses to be used to do either of the following:(1) Initiate or advertise in an unsolicited commercial e-mail advertisement from California, or advertise in an unsolicited commercial e-mail advertisement sent from California.(2) Initiate or advertise in an unsolicited commercial e-mail advertisement to a California electronic mail address, or advertise in an unsolicited commercial e-mail advertisement sent to California electronic mail address.(b) It is unlawful for any person or entity to use an electronic mail address obtained by using automated means based on a combination of names, letters, or numbers to do either of the following:(1) Initiate or advertise in an unsolicited commercial e-mail advertisement from California, or advertise in an unsolicited commercial e-mail advertisement sent from California.(2) Initiate or advertise in an unsolicited commercial e-mail advertisement to a California electronic mail address, or advertise in an unsolicited commercial e-mail advertisement sent to a California electronic mail address.(c) It is unlawful for any person to use scripts or other automated means to register for multiple electronic mail accounts from which to do, or to enable another person to do, either of the following:(1) Initiate or advertise in an unsolicited commercial e-mail advertisement from California, or advertise in an unsolicited commercial e-mail advertisement sent from California.(2) Initiate or advertise in an unsolicited commercial e-mail advertisement to a California electronic mail address, or advertise in an unsolicited commercial e-mail advertisement sent to a California electronic mail address.(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 487, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 17529.8 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 3 - REPRESENTATIONS TO THE PUBLIC|CHAPTER 1 - Advertising|ARTICLE 1.8 - Restrictions On Unsolicited Commercial E-mail Advertisers|Section 17529.8.

17529.8.  (a) (1) In addition to any other remedies provided by this article or by any other provisions of law, a recipient of an unsolicited commercial e-mail advertisement transmitted in violation of this article, an electronic mail service provider, or the Attorney General may bring an action against an entity that violates any provision of this article to recover either or both of the following:(A) Actual damages.(B) Liquidated damages of one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each unsolicited commercial e-mail advertisement transmitted in violation of Section 17529.2, up to one million dollars ($1,000,000) per incident.(2) The recipient, an electronic mail service provider, or the Attorney General, if the prevailing plaintiff, may also recover reasonable attorney’s fees and costs.(3) However, there shall not be a cause of action against an electronic mail service provider that is only involved in the routine transmission of the unsolicited commercial e-mail advertisement over its computer network.(b) If the court finds that the defendant established and implemented, with due care, practices and procedures reasonably designed to effectively prevent unsolicited commercial e-mail advertisements that are in violation of this article, the court shall reduce the liquidated damages recoverable under subdivision (a) to a maximum of one hundred dollars ($100) for each unsolicited commercial e-mail advertisement, or a maximum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) per incident.(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 487, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 17529.9 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 3 - REPRESENTATIONS TO THE PUBLIC|CHAPTER 1 - Advertising|ARTICLE 1.8 - Restrictions On Unsolicited Commercial E-mail Advertisers|Section 17529.9.

17529.9.  The provisions of this article are severable. If any provision of this article or its application is held invalid, that invalidity shall not affect any other provision or application that can be given effect without the invalid provision or application.(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 487, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 17530 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 3 - REPRESENTATIONS TO THE PUBLIC|CHAPTER 1 - Advertising|ARTICLE 2 - Particular Offenses|Section 17530.

17530.  It is unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, or association, or any employee or agent therefor, to make or disseminate any statement or assertion of fact in a newspaper, circular, circular or form letter, or other publication published or circulated, including over the Internet, in any language in this state, concerning the extent, location, ownership, title, or other characteristic, quality, or attribute of any real estate located in this state or elsewhere, which is known to be untrue and which is made or disseminated with the intention of misleading.Nothing in this section shall be construed to hold the publisher of any newspaper, or any job printer, liable for any publication herein referred to unless the publisher or printer has an interest, either as owner or agent, in the real estate so advertised.(Amended by Stats. 1998, Ch. 599, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 1999.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 17530.1 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 3 - REPRESENTATIONS TO THE PUBLIC|CHAPTER 1 - Advertising|ARTICLE 2 - Particular Offenses|Section 17530.1.

17530.1.  (a) It shall be unlawful for a person to recommend to a prospective trustor any person to serve as trustee with knowledge or having reason to believe that the proposed trustee is insolvent or is about to become insolvent.For purposes of this section, “insolvent” means a person who has ceased to pay that person’s debts as they become due or whose liabilities exceed that person’s assets.(b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any trustee named in any deed of trust or mortgage which secures a note or evidence of indebtedness on real property when such trustee acts solely in that capacity.(Added by Stats. 1979, Ch. 763.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 17530.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 3 - REPRESENTATIONS TO THE PUBLIC|CHAPTER 1 - Advertising|ARTICLE 2 - Particular Offenses|Section 17530.5.

17530.5.  (a) It is a misdemeanor for any person, including an individual, firm, corporation, association, partnership, or joint venture, or any employee or agent thereof, to disclose any information obtained in the business of preparing federal or state income tax returns or assisting taxpayers in preparing those returns, including any instance in which this information is obtained through an electronic medium, unless the disclosure is within any of the following:(1) Consented to in writing by the taxpayer in a separate document that states to whom the disclosure will be made and how the information will be used. If the taxpayer agrees, this separate consent document may be in the form of an electronic record, executed by an electronic signature as provided by Title 2.5 (commencing with Section 1633.1) of Part 2 of Division 3 of the Civil Code.(2) Expressly authorized by state or federal law.(3) Necessary to the preparation of the return.(4) Pursuant to court order.(b) For the purposes of this section, a person is engaged in the business of preparing federal or state income tax returns or assisting taxpayers in preparing those returns if the person does any of the following:(1) Advertises, or gives publicity to the effect that the person prepares or assists others in the preparation of state or federal income tax returns.(2) Prepares or assists others in the preparation of state or federal income tax returns for compensation.(3) Files a state or federal income tax return by electronic transmittal of return data directly to the Franchise Tax Board or to the Internal Revenue Service.(c) A disclosure prohibited by this section includes a disclosure made internally within the entity preparing or assisting in preparing the return for any purpose other than tax preparation or made by that entity to any of its subsidiaries or affiliates.(d) For purposes of this section, “affiliate” means any entity that, directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with, another entity.(e) Contacting a taxpayer to obtain his or her written consent to disclosure does not constitute a violation of this section.(Amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 1084, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2001.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 17530.7 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 3 - REPRESENTATIONS TO THE PUBLIC|CHAPTER 1 - Advertising|ARTICLE 2 - Particular Offenses|Section 17530.7.

17530.7.  It is unlawful for any person, other than a funeral director as defined in Section 7615, to sell, or offer to sell, on a retail basis, a casket, alternative container, or outer burial container, unless that person does all of the following:(a) Provides to any person, upon beginning any discussion of prices, a written or printed list containing, but not necessarily limited to, the price of all caskets and containers that are normally offered for sale by that seller. The seller shall also provide a written statement or list that, at a minimum, specifically identifies particular caskets or containers by price and by thickness of metal, type of wood, or other construction, and by interior and color, when a request for specific information on caskets or containers is made in person by any individual. This information shall also be provided over the telephone, upon request.(b) Places the price in a conspicuous manner on each casket. Individual price tags on caskets shall include the thickness of metal and type of wood or other construction, as applicable, in addition to interior and color information.(c) Places in a conspicuous manner on each casket represented as having a sealing device of any kind, the following notices in at least eight-point boldface type: “THERE IS NO SCIENTIFIC OR OTHER EVIDENCE THAT ANY CASKET WITH A SEALING DEVICE WILL PRESERVE HUMAN REMAINS.”(d) Furnishes to the buyer prior to the sale, a written or printed itemized statement of all costs associated with the sale.(e) Provides to the buyer a statement that includes a notice to the buyer that he or she may contact the office of the district attorney in that jurisdiction with any questions or complaints. At a minimum, the information shall be in eight-point boldface type, and state the following: “THE SELLER IS NOT A FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND IS NOT LICENSED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, AND MAY NOT OFFER OR PERFORM FUNERAL SERVICES. STATE AND FEDERAL LAWS PROHIBIT A FUNERAL DIRECTOR FROM CHARGING HANDLING FEES FOR A CASKET SUPPLIED BY ANOTHER PARTY. THE MONEYS RECEIVED BY THE SELLER FOR THE PURCHASE OF A CASKET ARE NOT SUBJECT TO STATE LAW GOVERNING MONEY HELD IN TRUST. THE SELLER IS NOT BOUND BY STATE LAWS OR REGULATIONS THAT GOVERN FUNERAL HOMES AND CEMETERIES. THE PURCHASER ENTERS THIS AGREEMENT AT HIS OR HER OWN RISK. FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT THE OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY IN YOUR COUNTY.”(Added by Stats. 1998, Ch. 286, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 1999.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 17531 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 3 - REPRESENTATIONS TO THE PUBLIC|CHAPTER 1 - Advertising|ARTICLE 2 - Particular Offenses|Section 17531.

17531.  It is unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation, in any newspaper, magazine, circular, form letter or any open publication, published, distributed, or circulated in this state, including over the Internet, or on any billboard, card, label, or other advertising medium, or by means of any other advertising device, to advertise, call attention to or give publicity to the sale of any merchandise, which merchandise is secondhand or used merchandise, or which merchandise is defective in any manner, or which merchandise consists of articles or units or parts known as “seconds,” or blemished merchandise, or which merchandise has been rejected by the manufacturer thereof as not first class, unless there is conspicuously displayed directly in connection with the name and description of that merchandise and each specified article, unit, or part thereof, a direct and unequivocal statement, phrase, or word which will clearly indicate that the merchandise or each article, unit, or part thereof so advertised is secondhand, used, defective, or consists of “seconds” or is blemished merchandise, or has been rejected by the manufacturer thereof, as the case may be. Any violation of this section is a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by a fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500), or by both that imprisonment and fine.(Amended by Stats. 1998, Ch. 599, Sec. 8. Effective January 1, 1999.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 17531.1 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 3 - REPRESENTATIONS TO THE PUBLIC|CHAPTER 1 - Advertising|ARTICLE 2 - Particular Offenses|Section 17531.1.

17531.1.  Every manufacturer, wholesaler, jobber, distributor, or other person, who packages children’s toys for sale to any retailer, shall clearly state on the outside of the package that the toy is unassembled if such is the case. If children’s toys are packaged outside this State, the first wholesaler, jobber, distributor, or other person who has possession or control of the toys in this State in the course of distribution or marketing of such toys for sale to any retailer shall not further distribute or market such toys if they are unassembled unless and until the outside of each package which contains any such toys clearly states that the toys are unassembled.(Added by Stats. 1959, Ch. 823.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 17531.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 3 - REPRESENTATIONS TO THE PUBLIC|CHAPTER 1 - Advertising|ARTICLE 2 - Particular Offenses|Section 17531.5.

17531.5.  It is unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation, in any newspaper, magazine, circular, form letter, or any open publication, published, distributed, or circulated in the State of California, including over the Internet, or on any billboard, card, label, or other advertising medium, or by means of any other advertising device, to advertise, call attention to, or give publicity to the sale of any merchandise, which merchandise is surplus materials as defined in the federal Surplus Property Act of 1944 (50 U.S.C. App. Sec. 1622 et seq.), unless there is conspicuously displayed directly in connection with the name and description of that merchandise and each specified article, unit, or part thereof, a direct and unequivocal statement, phrase, or word which will clearly indicate that the merchandise or each article, unit, or part thereof so advertised is or consists of surplus materials as defined in the federal Surplus Property Act of 1944.(Amended by Stats. 1998, Ch. 599, Sec. 9. Effective January 1, 1999.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 17531.6 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 3 - REPRESENTATIONS TO THE PUBLIC|CHAPTER 1 - Advertising|ARTICLE 2 - Particular Offenses|Section 17531.6.

17531.6.  As used in Sections 17531.7 and 17531.8, the term:(a) “Picture tube” means cathode ray tube, otherwise known as kinescope or CRT.(b) “Rejuvenate,” or words of like import such as “reactivate” or “restore,” means the repair of any internal malfunction of a picture tube by burning out shorts in the electron gun assembly, or flaking the cathode by heating and vibrating the cathode, or activities of a similar nature.(c) “Seconds,” or terms of like import such as “rejects,” mean that the picture tube, though giving satisfactory performance, does not meet the quality and workmanship maintained by the manufacturer with respect to the general run of tubes of the same type.(d) “Person” includes individual, partnership, firm, association, or corporation.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 725.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 17531.7 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 3 - REPRESENTATIONS TO THE PUBLIC|CHAPTER 1 - Advertising|ARTICLE 2 - Particular Offenses|Section 17531.7.

17531.7.  (a) No manufacturer, processor, or distributor of television picture tubes shall sell, offer for sale, or expose for sale any such tube unless the television picture tube and its container, if any, are correctly labeled to indicate the new and used materials of such tube according to the schedule and manner as hereinafter provided.Description of the picture tube by new and used components and materials shall be indicated by setting forth on the label the particular grade and verbatim description as selected from the following which applies to such tube. ScheduleBlack and White Picture TubesGrade AA—Description—All new components and materials including new glass envelope.Grade A—Description—Used glass envelope, all other components and materials are new.Grade B—Description—Used glass envelope, used phosphorescent viewing screen, used aluminization, used internal conductive coating, all other components and materials are new.Grade C—Description—Used picture tube for resale, all significant components and materials are used.  Color Picture TubesGrade AA—Description—All new components and materials, including new glass envelope.Grade A—Description—Used glass envelope, new or used shadow mask, all other components and materials are new.Grade B—Description—New electron gun, all other components and materials are used.Grade C—Description—Used picture tube for resale, all significant components and materials are used. (b) The fact that a used picture tube has been rejuvenated, or has a new or used brightener attached to it, or has fresh paint or coating on the outside, or any combination of the above, shall not change its status or description as a Grade C picture tube, and the terms “rebuilt” or “reconditioned” or words of like import shall not be used to describe such tube.(c) Where a picture tube is a “second” such tube shall be designated by label as a “second” to the exclusion of any other grade designation or component description and the following additional notation shall appear verbatim on the label:—This picture tube is a manufacturer’s reject orsecond line quality tube but it is capable ofgiving satisfactory performance—(Amended by Stats. 1969, Ch. 694.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 17531.8 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 3 - REPRESENTATIONS TO THE PUBLIC|CHAPTER 1 - Advertising|ARTICLE 2 - Particular Offenses|Section 17531.8.

17531.8.  No person other than a purchaser at retail for his own use and consumption shall remove, deface, cover, obliterate, mutilate, alter, or cause to be removed, defaced, covered, obliterated, mutilated, or altered any label required to be placed on a picture tube by this code.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 725.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 17531.9 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 3 - REPRESENTATIONS TO THE PUBLIC|CHAPTER 1 - Advertising|ARTICLE 2 - Particular Offenses|Section 17531.9.

17531.9.  Any person violating any of the provisions of Section 17531.7 or 17531.8 may be enjoined by any superior court of competent jurisdiction upon action for injunction, brought by the Attorney General or any district attorney in this state, and the superior court shall, after proof of violation, issue an injunction or other appropriate order restraining such conduct. This injunctive remedy shall not be construed to limit the district attorney of the county wherein the violation occurred from prosecuting criminal action for any violations of Section 17531.7 or 17531.8.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 725.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 17532 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 3 - REPRESENTATIONS TO THE PUBLIC|CHAPTER 1 - Advertising|ARTICLE 2 - Particular Offenses|Section 17532.

17532.  It is unlawful wilfully or knowingly, with intent to defraud, to sell or exchange, or offer or expose for sale or exchange, coal of a specific name or kind under any other name or description, or as the output of any mine other than the mine of which it is the product.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 63.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 17533 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 3 - REPRESENTATIONS TO THE PUBLIC|CHAPTER 1 - Advertising|ARTICLE 2 - Particular Offenses|Section 17533.

17533.  It is unlawful for any proprietor or publisher of any newspaper or periodical, including any newspaper or periodical published over the Internet, willfully and knowingly to misrepresent the circulation of the newspaper or periodical, for the purpose of securing advertising or other patronage.(Amended by Stats. 1998, Ch. 599, Sec. 10. Effective January 1, 1999.)