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CA Bus & Prof Code § 16100.7 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 1 - LICENSING FOR REVENUE AND REGULATION|CHAPTER 2 - Licensing by Counties|Section 16100.7.

16100.7.  (a) Notwithstanding Section 37101 of the Government Code, Section 7284 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, or Section 16000 of this code, no county or city and county shall require a regulatory license or impose a regulatory license fee with respect to the solicitation of donations for the support of veterans by federally chartered veterans’ organizations specified in Title 36 of the United States Code.(b) This section shall not be construed to prohibit licensing and regulation of business-related activities, such as those involving the sale or exchange of goods or services.(Added by Stats. 1998, Ch. 138, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1999.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 16101 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 1 - LICENSING FOR REVENUE AND REGULATION|CHAPTER 2 - Licensing by Counties|Section 16101.

16101.  The boards of supervisors in their respective counties may for the purpose of revenue license individuals acting as hawkers, itinerant peddlers or itinerant vendors, other than merchants having a fixed place of business in the county, their employees, and farmers selling farm products produced by them.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 61.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 16102 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 1 - LICENSING FOR REVENUE AND REGULATION|CHAPTER 2 - Licensing by Counties|Section 16102.

16102.  Every soldier, sailor or marine of the United States who has received an honorable discharge or a release from active duty under honorable conditions from such service may hawk, peddle and vend any goods, wares or merchandise owned by him, except spirituous, malt, vinous or other intoxicating liquor, without payment of any license, tax or fee whatsoever, whether municipal, county or State, and the board of supervisors shall issue to such soldier, sailor or marine, without cost, a license therefor.(Amended by Stats. 1941, Ch. 646.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 16103 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 1 - LICENSING FOR REVENUE AND REGULATION|CHAPTER 2 - Licensing by Counties|Section 16103.

16103.  No license fee may be collected from, nor any penalty for the nonpayment thereof enforced against, any commercial traveler whose business is limited to goods, wares and merchandise sold or dealt in at wholesale in this State.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 61.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 16104 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 1 - LICENSING FOR REVENUE AND REGULATION|CHAPTER 2 - Licensing by Counties|Section 16104.

16104.  No license requiring a fee greater than 3 cents ($0.03) per head shall be imposed by the board of supervisors of any county on the business of raising, grazing, herding or pasturing sheep, nor shall any such license tax be applicable to or on account of lambs under eight months old.(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 67.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 16105 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 1 - LICENSING FOR REVENUE AND REGULATION|CHAPTER 2 - Licensing by Counties|Section 16105.

16105.  Any license issued to a business pursuant to this chapter shall be revoked for violation of Section 24185 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to human cloning.(Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 821, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 2003.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 16110 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 1 - LICENSING FOR REVENUE AND REGULATION|CHAPTER 2.1 - Business License Taxation|Section 16110.

16110.  No city, county, or city and county which levies a business license tax calculated on a basis of gross receipts pursuant to Section 16000 or 16100 or Section 37101 of the Government Code, as the case may be, or pursuant to any other provision of law, shall include the amount of gross receipts or the cost of the business license tax on the business license tax receipt.(Added by Stats. 1986, Ch. 388, Sec. 1.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 16111 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 1 - LICENSING FOR REVENUE AND REGULATION|CHAPTER 2.1 - Business License Taxation|Section 16111.

16111.  As used in this chapter:(a) “Business license tax receipt” means the receipt or certificate required to be posted or displayed as evidence of a business’s payment of the tax.(b) “City” includes a charter city.(c) “County” includes a charter county.(Added by Stats. 1986, Ch. 388, Sec. 1.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 16112 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 1 - LICENSING FOR REVENUE AND REGULATION|CHAPTER 2.1 - Business License Taxation|Section 16112.

16112.  The Legislature finds and declares that protecting the privacy of a business’s tax payments and gross receipts is a matter of statewide interest and concern.(Added by Stats. 1986, Ch. 388, Sec. 1.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 16300 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 1 - LICENSING FOR REVENUE AND REGULATION|CHAPTER 4 - Employment Activities|Section 16300.

16300.  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, Chapter 1.5 (commencing with Section 7284) of Part 1.7 of Division 2 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, or Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 37100) of Part 2 of Division 3 of Title 4 of the Government Code, no city, including a charter city, city and county, or county may require an employee to obtain a business license or home business occupation permit for, or impose a business tax or registration fee based on income earned for services performed for an employer by the employee in an employment relationship as determined by reference to the common law factors reflected in rulings or guidelines used by either the Internal Revenue Service or the Franchise Tax Board. When there is a dispute between a city, city and county, or county and a taxpayer, the manner in which a taxpayer reports or reported income to the Franchise Tax Board or the Internal Revenue Service shall create a presumption regarding whether the taxpayer performed services for an employer as an employee, or operated a business entity. For purposes of this section, “income” includes income paid currently or deferred and income that is fixed or contingent.(b) Nothing in this section shall be interpreted to limit the authority of a city, city and county, or county to adopt and enforce zoning, health and safety ordinances, or regulations that define and limit activities that are permissible within its jurisdiction for the purposes of health, safety, welfare, and the provisions of applicable noise ordinances.(Added by Stats. 2001, Ch. 36, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2002.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 16545 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 1 - LICENSING FOR REVENUE AND REGULATION|CHAPTER 6 - Notice to Licensees|Section 16545.

16545.  Every state agency which licenses any kind of business transacted or carried on within their respective jurisdictions shall require applications filed to designate the name of the applicant’s workmen’s compensation insurance carrier, if any. This section does not apply to licensing under the Outdoor Advertising Act. The license application form shall contain a statement substantially as follows: “I am aware of the provisions of Section 3700 of the Labor Code which requires every employer to be insured against liability for workmen’s compensation.”(Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 1423.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 16550 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 1 - LICENSING FOR REVENUE AND REGULATION|CHAPTER 7 - Transportation Network Company Drivers: Business Licenses|Section 16550.

16550.  It is the intent of the Legislature to limit any requirement for a business license imposed by a local jurisdiction on a participating driver for a transportation network company to a single business license, regardless of the number of local jurisdictions in which the participating driver operates.(Added by Stats. 2017, Ch. 769, Sec. 1. (SB 182) Effective January 1, 2018.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 16550.1 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 1 - LICENSING FOR REVENUE AND REGULATION|CHAPTER 7 - Transportation Network Company Drivers: Business Licenses|Section 16550.1.

16550.1.  For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply:(a) “Business license” includes any license, certificate, fee, or equivalent payment that is required or collected by a local jurisdiction annually, or on some other fixed cycle, as a condition of providing prearranged transportation services in the local jurisdiction.(b) “Driver” has the same meaning as the definition of driver provided in subdivision (a) of Section 5431 of the Public Utilities Code.(c) “Local jurisdiction” means a city, county, or city and county, including charter cities.(d) “Personally identifiable information” means individually identifiable information about an individual driver collected by the local jurisdiction from that individual, including, but not limited to, all of the following:(1) A first and last name.(2) A residential address, including a street and city name.(3) An email address.(4) A telephone number.(5) A social security number.(6) Driver income or tax information.(e) “Transportation network company” has the same meaning as the definition of transportation network company provided in subdivision (c) of Section 5431 of the Public Utilities Code.(Added by Stats. 2017, Ch. 769, Sec. 1. (SB 182) Effective January 1, 2018.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 16550.2 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 1 - LICENSING FOR REVENUE AND REGULATION|CHAPTER 7 - Transportation Network Company Drivers: Business Licenses|Section 16550.2.

16550.2.  (a) Any local jurisdiction that requires a driver to obtain a business license to operate as a driver for a transportation network company may only require that driver to obtain a single business license, regardless of the number of local jurisdictions in which the driver operates.(b) The driver shall obtain a business license in the local jurisdiction in which the driver is domiciled. If the local jurisdiction does not require a business license to operate as a driver for a transportation network company, the driver shall not be required to obtain a business license for any other jurisdiction.(c) A local jurisdiction shall not require a driver to obtain a business license if either of the following applies:(1) The driver is compliant with subdivision (b).(2) The driver has not operated as a driver for more than 30 days in the preceding fiscal year.(d) Each transportation network company shall notify its drivers of the obligations set forth in this chapter.(e) Notwithstanding any other law, a business license issued to a driver by a local jurisdiction pursuant to this chapter shall be valid for the period of time determined by the local jurisdiction by law or regulation, except that the local jurisdiction shall not require a driver to obtain a business license that applies for a period before January 1, 2018, or that imposes any penalty or fee on a driver related to the driver’s failure to obtain a business license for providing transportation network services for a period before January 1, 2018.(f) Personally identifiable information submitted to a local jurisdiction pursuant to this chapter shall not be disclosed on a publicly accessible Internet Web site.(g) This chapter does not preclude the sharing of business license data among local jurisdictions.(h) The Legislature finds and declares that allowing the free operation of drivers for transportation network companies across local jurisdictions is a matter of statewide concern and is not a municipal affair as that term is used in subdivision (a) of Section 5 of Article XI of the California Constitution.(Added by Stats. 2017, Ch. 769, Sec. 1. (SB 182) Effective January 1, 2018.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 16600 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 2 - PRESERVATION AND REGULATION OF COMPETITION|CHAPTER 1 - Contracts in Restraint of Trade|Section 16600.

16600.  Except as provided in this chapter, every contract by which anyone is restrained from engaging in a lawful profession, trade, or business of any kind is to that extent void.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 526.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 16601 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 2 - PRESERVATION AND REGULATION OF COMPETITION|CHAPTER 1 - Contracts in Restraint of Trade|Section 16601.

16601.  Any person who sells the goodwill of a business, or any owner of a business entity selling or otherwise disposing of all of his or her ownership interest in the business entity, or any owner of a business entity that sells (a) all or substantially all of its operating assets together with the goodwill of the business entity, (b) all or substantially all of the operating assets of a division or a subsidiary of the business entity together with the goodwill of that division or subsidiary, or (c) all of the ownership interest of any subsidiary, may agree with the buyer to refrain from carrying on a similar business within a specified geographic area in which the business so sold, or that of the business entity, division, or subsidiary has been carried on, so long as the buyer, or any person deriving title to the goodwill or ownership interest from the buyer, carries on a like business therein.For the purposes of this section, “business entity” means any partnership (including a limited partnership or a limited liability partnership), limited liability company (including a series of a limited liability company formed under the laws of a jurisdiction that recognizes such a series), or corporation.For the purposes of this section, “owner of a business entity” means any partner, in the case of a business entity that is a partnership (including a limited partnership or a limited liability partnership), or any member, in the case of a business entity that is a limited liability company (including a series of a limited liability company formed under the laws of a jurisdiction that recognizes such a series), or any owner of capital stock, in the case of a business entity that is a corporation.For the purposes of this section, “ownership interest” means a partnership interest, in the case of a business entity that is a partnership (including a limited partnership a limited liability partnership), a membership interest, in the case of a business entity that is a limited liability company (including a series of a limited liability company formed under the laws of a jurisdiction that recognizes such a series), or a capital stockholder, in the case of a business entity that is a corporation.For the purposes of this section, “subsidiary” means any business entity over which the selling business entity has voting control or from which the selling business entity has a right to receive a majority share of distributions upon dissolution or other liquidation of the business entity (or has both voting control and a right to receive these distributions.)(Amended by Stats. 2006, Ch. 495, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2007.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 16602 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 2 - PRESERVATION AND REGULATION OF COMPETITION|CHAPTER 1 - Contracts in Restraint of Trade|Section 16602.

16602.  (a) Any partner may, upon or in anticipation of any of the circumstances described in subdivision (b), agree that he or she will not carry on a similar business within a specified geographic area where the partnership business has been transacted, so long as any other member of the partnership, or any person deriving title to the business or its goodwill from any such other member of the partnership, carries on a like business therein.(b) Subdivision (a) applies to either of the following circumstances:(1) A dissolution of the partnership.(2) Dissociation of the partner from the partnership.(Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 179, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2003.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 16602.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 2 - PRESERVATION AND REGULATION OF COMPETITION|CHAPTER 1 - Contracts in Restraint of Trade|Section 16602.5.

16602.5.  Any member may, upon or in anticipation of a dissolution of, or the termination of his or her interest in, a limited liability company (including a series of a limited liability company formed under the laws of a jurisdiction recognizing such a series), agree that he or she or it will not carry on a similar business within a specified geographic area where the limited liability company business has been transacted, so long as any other member of the limited liability company, or any person deriving title to the business or its goodwill from any such other member of the limited liability company, carries on a like business therein.(Amended by Stats. 2006, Ch. 495, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2007.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 16603 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 2 - PRESERVATION AND REGULATION OF COMPETITION|CHAPTER 1 - Contracts in Restraint of Trade|Section 16603.

16603.  Every person who, as a condition to a sale or consignment of any magazine, book, or other publication requires that the purchaser or consignee purchase or receive for sale any horror comic book, is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both.This section is not intended to prohibit an agreement requiring a person to purchase or accept on consignment a minimum number of copies of a single edition or issue of a magazine or of a particular book or other particular publication. As used in this section “person” includes a corporation, partnership, or other association.As used in this section “horror comic book” means any book or booklet in which an account of the commission or attempted commission of the crime of arson, assault with caustic chemicals, assault with a deadly weapon, burglary, kidnapping, mayhem, murder, rape, robbery, theft, or voluntary manslaughter is set forth by means of a series of five or more drawings or photographs in sequence, which are accompanied by either narrative writing or words represented as spoken by a pictured character, whether such narrative words appear in balloons, captions or on or immediately adjacent to the photograph or drawing.(Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 1092, Sec. 49. Effective September 27, 1983. Operative January 1, 1984, by Sec. 427 of Ch. 1092.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 16604 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 2 - PRESERVATION AND REGULATION OF COMPETITION|CHAPTER 1 - Contracts in Restraint of Trade|Section 16604.

16604.  Every person who, as a condition to a sale or consignment of any magazine, book, or other publication, requires that the purchaser or consignee purchase or receive for sale any other magazine, book, or other publication is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both such imprisonment and such fine.This section is not intended to prohibit an agreement requiring a person to purchase or accept on consignment a minimum number of copies of a single edition or issue of a magazine or of a particular book or other particular publication. As used in this section, “person” includes a corporation, partnership, or other association.This section does not apply with respect to any contract relating exclusively to the sale or consignment of any newspaper of general circulation as defined by Section 6000 of the Government Code.(Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 1092, Sec. 50. Effective September 27, 1983. Operative January 1, 1984, by Sec. 427 of Ch. 1092.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 16605 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 2 - PRESERVATION AND REGULATION OF COMPETITION|CHAPTER 1 - Contracts in Restraint of Trade|Section 16605.

16605.  Every person engaged in the business of distribution of books, magazines or publications of any kind to retail dealers shall remove from the possession of a retail dealer, within 10 days after notification by the dealer, any material which he delivered to the dealer which the dealer did not specifically request, if such dealer notifies such person that he does not want the material within 48 hours of receipt of the material.Any person who refuses to transact business with a dealer because of any action taken by the dealer under this section is guilty of a misdemeanor.As used in this section “person” includes a corporation, partnership or other association.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1723.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 16606 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 2 - PRESERVATION AND REGULATION OF COMPETITION|CHAPTER 1 - Contracts in Restraint of Trade|Section 16606.

16606.  The customer list, including the names, addresses, and identity of customers, of a telephone answering service shall constitute a trade secret and confidential information of, and shall belong to, the owner of the telephone answering service.(Added by Stats. 1968, Ch. 720.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 16607 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|PART 2 - PRESERVATION AND REGULATION OF COMPETITION|CHAPTER 1 - Contracts in Restraint of Trade|Section 16607.

16607.  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the customer list, including the names, addresses and identity of all employer customers who have listed job orders with an employment agency within a period of 180 days prior to the separation of an employee from the agency and including the names, addresses and identity of all applicant customers of the employment agency, shall constitute a trade secret and confidential information of, and shall belong to, the employment agency.(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision (a), no liability shall attach to, and no cause of action shall arise from, the use of a customer list of an employment agency by a former employee who enters into business as an employment agency more than one year immediately following termination of his employment. (Added by Stats. 1973, Ch. 1116.)
CA Bus & Prof Code § 16800 (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 16800.

16800.  It is unlawful for any two or more persons, or corporations, to combine or agree together to do any act which will, in any respect, prevent any person from buying livestock at any place in this State.(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 67.)