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CA Bus & Prof Code § 16801 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 2 - PRESERVATION AND REGULATION OF COMPETITION|CHAPTER 2.5 - Combinations to Obstruct Sales of Livestock|Section 16801.

16801.  It is unlawful for any corporation organized under the laws of this State, or the board of directors, trustees, stockholders, agents, or officers of any corporation, to pass or enforce any rule, by-law, or regulation whereby any officer, stockholder, member, shareholder, agent, servant thereof, or any other person in any way interested in or connected with such corporation shall in any respect be prohibited, prevented, or enjoined from buying livestock in any market in this State where livestock is brought to be sold.Every such rule, regulation, or by-law is declared to be contrary to the public policy of this State, and is unlawful and void. Any person who attempts, directly or indirectly, to enforce any such rule, regulation, or by-law, is guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to the penalties prescribed in this chapter.(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 67.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 16802 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 2 - PRESERVATION AND REGULATION OF COMPETITION|CHAPTER 2.5 - Combinations to Obstruct Sales of Livestock|Section 16802.

16802.  No trust, combination, or conspiracy shall be organized or exist in this State to prevent any person or corporation from selling livestock on commission at such rate as the person or corporation may see fit to charge. Any rule, regulation, by-law, or agreement of any corporation, association, society, or combination of persons, whereby any such parties are required to charge not less than a given sum for commissions, or whereby any person or commission merchant is, in any respect, restrained from charging less than a certain fixed sum for his services as such commission merchant in the sale of livestock, is declared to be contrary to the public policy of this State, and is unlawful.Any person who enters into any such trust, combination, or conspiracy, or who enforces or aids, abets, assists, or encourages the enforcement of any such rule, regulation, by-law, or agreement, is liable to the penalties prescribed in this chapter.(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 67.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 16803 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 2 - PRESERVATION AND REGULATION OF COMPETITION|CHAPTER 2.5 - Combinations to Obstruct Sales of Livestock|Section 16803.

16803.  Any person who, directly or indirectly, is a party to any combination, conspiracy, or association, which attempts, directly or indirectly, to prevent any other person from freely selling livestock at any market in this State for such persons as see fit to engage his services, or who endeavors to compel, directly or indirectly, any person to charge not less than a fixed minimum sum for services in the sale of livestock, or who, in any way, hinders or prevents any person from lawfully selling livestock for another for such rate of commission as may be agreed upon is guilty of a misdemeanor, and subject to the penalties prescribed in this chapter.(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 67.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 16804 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 2 - PRESERVATION AND REGULATION OF COMPETITION|CHAPTER 2.5 - Combinations to Obstruct Sales of Livestock|Section 16804.

16804.  A violation of any provision of this chapter is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars ($500) and not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000), or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year, or both. A person violating any provision of this chapter shall be liable, in civil action, to any person aggrieved thereby, for the full amount of damages sustained by reason of the violation.(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 67.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 17200 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 2 - PRESERVATION AND REGULATION OF COMPETITION|CHAPTER 5 - Enforcement|Section 17200.

17200.  As used in this chapter, unfair competition shall mean and include any unlawful, unfair or fraudulent business act or practice and unfair, deceptive, untrue or misleading advertising and any act prohibited by Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 17500) of Part 3 of Division 7 of the Business and Professions Code.(Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 430, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1993.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 17201 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 2 - PRESERVATION AND REGULATION OF COMPETITION|CHAPTER 5 - Enforcement|Section 17201.

17201.  As used in this chapter, the term person shall mean and include natural persons, corporations, firms, partnerships, joint stock companies, associations and other organizations of persons.(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 299.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 17201.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 2 - PRESERVATION AND REGULATION OF COMPETITION|CHAPTER 5 - Enforcement|Section 17201.5.

17201.5.  As used in this chapter:(a) “Board within the Department of Consumer Affairs” includes any commission, bureau, division, or other similarly constituted agency within the Department of Consumer Affairs.(b) “Local consumer affairs agency” means and includes any city or county body which primarily provides consumer protection services.(Added by Stats. 1979, Ch. 897.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 17202 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 2 - PRESERVATION AND REGULATION OF COMPETITION|CHAPTER 5 - Enforcement|Section 17202.

17202.  Notwithstanding Section 3369 of the Civil Code, specific or preventive relief may be granted to enforce a penalty, forfeiture, or penal law in a case of unfair competition.(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 299.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 17203 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 2 - PRESERVATION AND REGULATION OF COMPETITION|CHAPTER 5 - Enforcement|Section 17203.

17203.  Injunctive Relief—Court OrdersAny person who engages, has engaged, or proposes to engage in unfair competition may be enjoined in any court of competent jurisdiction. The court may make such orders or judgments, including the appointment of a receiver, as may be necessary to prevent the use or employment by any person of any practice which constitutes unfair competition, as defined in this chapter, or as may be necessary to restore to any person in interest any money or property, real or personal, which may have been acquired by means of such unfair competition. Any person may pursue representative claims or relief on behalf of others only if the claimant meets the standing requirements of Section 17204 and complies with Section 382 of the Code of Civil Procedure, but these limitations do not apply to claims brought under this chapter by the Attorney General, or any district attorney, county counsel, city attorney, or city prosecutor in this state.(Amended November 2, 2004, by initiative Proposition 64, Sec. 2.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 17204 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 2 - PRESERVATION AND REGULATION OF COMPETITION|CHAPTER 5 - Enforcement|Section 17204.

17204.  Actions for Injunctions by Attorney General, District Attorney, County Counsel, and City AttorneysActions for relief pursuant to this chapter shall be prosecuted exclusively in a court of competent jurisdiction by the Attorney General or a district attorney or by a county counsel authorized by agreement with the district attorney in actions involving violation of a county ordinance, or by a city attorney of a city having a population in excess of 750,000, or by a county counsel of any county within which a city has a population in excess of 750,000, or by a city attorney in a city and county or, with the consent of the district attorney, by a city prosecutor in a city having a full-time city prosecutor in the name of the people of the State of California upon their own complaint or upon the complaint of a board, officer, person, corporation, or association, or by a person who has suffered injury in fact and has lost money or property as a result of the unfair competition.(Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 140, Sec. 1. (SB 461) Effective January 1, 2022. Note: This section was amended on Nov. 2, 2004, by initiative Prop. 64.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 17205 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 2 - PRESERVATION AND REGULATION OF COMPETITION|CHAPTER 5 - Enforcement|Section 17205.

17205.  Unless otherwise expressly provided, the remedies or penalties provided by this chapter are cumulative to each other and to the remedies or penalties available under all other laws of this state.(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 299.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 17208 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 2 - PRESERVATION AND REGULATION OF COMPETITION|CHAPTER 5 - Enforcement|Section 17208.

17208.  Any action to enforce any cause of action pursuant to this chapter shall be commenced within four years after the cause of action accrued. No cause of action barred under existing law on the effective date of this section shall be revived by its enactment.(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 299.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 17209 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 2 - PRESERVATION AND REGULATION OF COMPETITION|CHAPTER 5 - Enforcement|Section 17209.

17209.  If a violation of this chapter is alleged or the application or construction of this chapter is in issue in any proceeding in the Supreme Court of California, a state court of appeal, or the appellate division of a superior court, each person filing any brief or petition with the court in that proceeding shall serve, within three days of filing with the court, a copy of that brief or petition on the Attorney General, directed to the attention of the Consumer Law Section at a service address designated on the Attorney General’s official Web site for service of papers under this section or, if no service address is designated, at the Attorney General’s office in San Francisco, California, and on the district attorney of the county in which the lower court action or proceeding was originally filed. Upon the Attorney General’s or district attorney’s request, each person who has filed any other document, including all or a portion of the appellate record, with the court in addition to a brief or petition shall provide a copy of that document without charge to the Attorney General or the district attorney within five days of the request. The time for service may be extended by the Chief Justice or presiding justice or judge for good cause shown. No judgment or relief, temporary or permanent, shall be granted or opinion issued until proof of service of the brief or petition on the Attorney General and district attorney is filed with the court.(Amended by Stats. 2004, Ch. 529, Sec. 4. Effective January 1, 2005.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 17350 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 2 - PRESERVATION AND REGULATION OF COMPETITION|CHAPTER 6.5 - Reassignments|Section 17350.

17350.  With respect to contracts entered into on or after the effective date of this chapter, no financial institution shall enter into a contract which provides for reassignment.(Added by Stats. 1979, Ch. 819.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 17351 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 2 - PRESERVATION AND REGULATION OF COMPETITION|CHAPTER 6.5 - Reassignments|Section 17351.

17351.  For the purposes of this chapter:(a) “Financial institution” means a bank, savings and loan association, or credit union chartered under the laws of this state or the United States or any other person or organization making loans upon the security of real property.(b) “Reassignment” means the exercise of a contractual right of a financial institution which is the assignee of a contract which is subject to the provisions of the Unruh Act (Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 1801) of Title 2 of Part 4 of Division 3 of the Civil Code) and which is secured by a mortgage as defined in Article 1 (commencing with Section 2920) of Chapter 2 of Title 14 of Part 4 of Division 3 of the Civil Code on real property to return the contract to the party assigning it to the financial institution, or to assign it to any other person, upon the default of one or more of the parties to the contract.(Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 423, Sec. 3. Effective July 11, 1980.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 17360 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 2 - PRESERVATION AND REGULATION OF COMPETITION|CHAPTER 7 - Sales of Telephone and Other Communications Equipment|Section 17360.

17360.  As used in this chapter, “person” includes an individual, partnership, firm, association, or corporation.(Added by Stats. 1983, Ch. 738, Sec. 2. Effective September 13, 1983. Section operative November 1, 1983, pursuant to Section 17365.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 17361 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 2 - PRESERVATION AND REGULATION OF COMPETITION|CHAPTER 7 - Sales of Telephone and Other Communications Equipment|Section 17361.

17361.  Any person offering for sale or selling telephone handsets or keysets or private branch exchanges or private automatic branch exchanges of not more than 20-station capacity, whether new or reconditioned, shall specify in all advertisements and catalogs therefor, except point-of-sale advertising, and on or in the equipment package both of the following:(a) Whether the equipment employs pulse, tone, pulse-or-tone, or other signaling method, and a general description of the services it can or cannot access as a result thereof.(b) Whether the equipment is registered with the Federal Communications Commission pursuant to Part 68 of Title 47 of the Code of Federal Regulations.(Added by Stats. 1983, Ch. 738, Sec. 2. Effective September 13, 1983. Section operative November 1, 1983, pursuant to Section 17365.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 17362 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 2 - PRESERVATION AND REGULATION OF COMPETITION|CHAPTER 7 - Sales of Telephone and Other Communications Equipment|Section 17362.

17362.  A retailer of telephone equipment shall give clear and conspicuous notice, both on the sale premises and in advertising and catalogs for telephone equipment, except point-of-sale advertising, of the person or persons responsible for repair of the equipment.(Added by Stats. 1983, Ch. 738, Sec. 2. Effective September 13, 1983. Section operative November 1, 1983, pursuant to Section 17365.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 17363 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 2 - PRESERVATION AND REGULATION OF COMPETITION|CHAPTER 7 - Sales of Telephone and Other Communications Equipment|Section 17363.

17363.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, Sections 17361 and 17362 do not apply to any of the following:(a) Institutional advertising directed to a general audience rather than to individual purchasers of telephone equipment.(b) Advertising, point-of-sale advertising, catalogs for, and sales of, telephone equipment not intended for direct connection to a telephone corporation’s central switching office through the telephone corporation lines.(c) Catalogs and equipment packages for telephone equipment which are in print or in physical production on or before November 1, 1983.(d) Advertising by radio or television if the advertising includes a toll-free number by which a potential buyer may speak personally with a trained sales representative who orally provides the potential buyer with a disclosure statement containing both of the items required by Section 17361. The advertiser shall file the text of this disclosure statement with the Director of Consumer Affairs and shall amend the filed statement, as needed, to conform to any changes made in the disclosure statement used by the advertiser.(Amended by Stats. 1984, Ch. 544, Sec. 1.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 17363.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 2 - PRESERVATION AND REGULATION OF COMPETITION|CHAPTER 7 - Sales of Telephone and Other Communications Equipment|Section 17363.5.

17363.5.  Any person advertising or offering for sale automatic dialing-announcing devices, as defined in Section 2871 of the Public Utilities Code, shall specify on all advertising therefor and in the instruction manual or other information included with the equipment that the equipment may be operated within California only in accordance with Article 1 (commencing with Section 2871) of Chapter 10 of Part 2 of Division 1 of the Public Utilities Code. The person shall also provide a full copy of that article to each purchaser of the equipment, and shall also provide a full copy to each prospective purchaser upon request.(Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 544, Sec. 2.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 17364 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 2 - PRESERVATION AND REGULATION OF COMPETITION|CHAPTER 7 - Sales of Telephone and Other Communications Equipment|Section 17364.

17364.  Every failure to comply with any provision of this chapter constitutes unfair competition and shall be enforced under Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 17200).(Added by Stats. 1983, Ch. 738, Sec. 2. Effective September 13, 1983. Section operative November 1, 1983, pursuant to Section 17365.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 17365 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 2 - PRESERVATION AND REGULATION OF COMPETITION|CHAPTER 7 - Sales of Telephone and Other Communications Equipment|Section 17365.

17365.  This chapter shall become operative on November 1, 1983.(Added by Stats. 1983, Ch. 738, Sec. 2. Effective September 13, 1983. Note: This section prescribes a delayed operative date for Chapter 7, commencing with Section 17360.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 17700 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 3 - REPRESENTATIONS TO THE PUBLIC|CHAPTER 2 - Premium Coupons|Section 17700.

17700.  As used in this chapter:(a) “Coupon” includes certificates, cards, package labels, wrappers, can covers, bottle caps or other and similar devices, which entitle the person holding or delivering or surrendering them to have them exchanged for or redeemed in goods, wares, merchandise, or services of any kind free of charge or for less than the retail price of such goods, wares, merchandise, or services.(b) “Person” includes persons, firm, firms, corporation and corporations.(c) “Issue” includes use, distribute, give away, sell and furnish.(Amended by Stats. 1957, Ch. 776.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 17701 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 3 - REPRESENTATIONS TO THE PUBLIC|CHAPTER 2 - Premium Coupons|Section 17701.

17701.  It is unlawful for any person to issue coupons unless there shall be specified in or upon such coupons, specifically or by class, the person by whom or with whom such coupon is exchangeable or redeemable, and unless such person specified is either:(a) The person issuing such coupon(b) Member or members of an association issuing such coupon which association shall be a bona fide organization in existence for a period of at least six months prior to issuing such coupon. The name and address by street and number of the principal place of business of the association shall also be specified in or upon such coupon(c) A person engaged in the business of issuing coupons for use or distribution by itself or by other persons.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 64.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 17701.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 3 - REPRESENTATIONS TO THE PUBLIC|CHAPTER 2 - Premium Coupons|Section 17701.5.

17701.5.  It is unlawful for any person to advertise a price that requires the buyer to send in a coupon to the manufacturer for a cash rebate, unless the price actually paid to the person selling the item is clearly and conspicuously advertised along with the final price with the coupon.(Added by Stats. 1990, Ch. 863, Sec. 1.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 17702 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 3 - REPRESENTATIONS TO THE PUBLIC|CHAPTER 2 - Premium Coupons|Section 17702.

17702.  Any person violating this chapter is for each offense guilty of a misdemeanor.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 64.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 17750 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 3 - REPRESENTATIONS TO THE PUBLIC|CHAPTER 3 - Trading Stamp Company Act|Section 17750.

17750.  “Trading stamp” means any stamp or similar device issued in connection with the retail sale of merchandise or service, as a cash discount, or for any other marketing purpose, that entitles the rightful holder, on its due presentation for redemption, to receive merchandise, service, or cash.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1997, Ch. 310, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1998.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 17751 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 3 - REPRESENTATIONS TO THE PUBLIC|CHAPTER 3 - Trading Stamp Company Act|Section 17751.

17751.  “Trading stamp” also means any stamp or similar device issued as a gift or as a consideration in any transaction other than in connection with the retail sale of merchandise or service, by a trading stamp company that also issues those devices in connection with the retail sale of merchandise or service, as a cash discount, or for any other marketing purpose, and that may be redeemed by the rightful holder on the same basis as, or interchangeably with, any trading stamp issued as described in Section 17750.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1997, Ch. 310, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1998.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 17752 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 3 - REPRESENTATIONS TO THE PUBLIC|CHAPTER 3 - Trading Stamp Company Act|Section 17752.

17752.  “Trading stamp” does not include any redeemable device used by the manufacturer or packer of an article, in advertising or selling the article, or any redeemable device issued and redeemed by a newspaper, magazine, or other publication.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1997, Ch. 310, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1998.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 17753 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 3 - REPRESENTATIONS TO THE PUBLIC|CHAPTER 3 - Trading Stamp Company Act|Section 17753.

17753.  “Trading stamp” does not include any coupon, ticket, certificate, card, or other similar device prepared by a merchant using that device and distributed by the merchant to his or her customers, if the device is redeemable only by that merchant for, or in connection with, the purchase of specific articles of merchandise carried in his or her stock.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1997, Ch. 310, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1998.)