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2023 California Code › Business and Professions Code - BPC › DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS › PART 3 - REPRESENTATIONS TO THE PUBLIC › CHAPTER 1 - Advertising › ARTICLE 1.4 - Telephonic Sellers › Section 17511.2.

17511.2. As used in this article, the following terms have the following meanings:
(a) “Department” means the Department of Justice.
(b) “Item” means any goods and services, and includes coupon books which are to be used with businesses other than the seller’s business.
(c) “Owner” means a person who owns or controls 10 percent or more of the equity of, or otherwise has claim to 10 percent or more of the net income of, a telephonic seller.
(d) “Person” includes an individual, firm, association, corporation, partnership, joint venture, or any other business entity.
(e) “Principal” means an owner, an executive officer of a corporation, a general partner of a partnership, a sole proprietor of a sole proprietorship, a trustee of a trust, or any other individual with similar supervisory functions with respect to any person.
(f) “Purchaser” or “prospective purchaser” means a person who is solicited to become or does become obligated to a telephonic seller.
(g) “Salesperson” means any individual employed, appointed or authorized by a telephonic seller, whether referred to by the telephonic seller as an agent, representative, or independent contractor, who attempts to solicit or solicits a sale on behalf of the telephonic seller. The principals of a seller are themselves salespersons if they solicit sales on behalf of the telephonic seller.
(Added by Stats. 1985, Ch. 1009, Sec. 1.)
2023 California Code › Business and Professions Code - BPC › DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS › PART 3 - REPRESENTATIONS TO THE PUBLIC › CHAPTER 1 - Advertising › ARTICLE 1.4 - Telephonic Sellers › Section 17511.6.

17511.6. Every telephonic seller shall file with the Attorney General, in the form prescribed by the Attorney General, an irrevocable consent appointing the Attorney General to act as the seller’s attorney to receive service of any lawful process in any noncriminal suit, action, or proceeding against the seller or the seller’s successor, executor, or administrator, which may arise under this article, when the agent designated pursuant to subdivision (o) of Section 17511.4 has resigned and has not been replaced or if the agent so designated cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the address designated pursuant to subdivision (o) of Section 17511.4 or if no agent has been designated pursuant thereto. When service is made upon the Attorney General in conformance with this section, it shall have the same force and validity as if served personally on the seller. Service may be made by leaving a copy of the process in the office of the Attorney General, but it shall not be effective unless both of the following are done:
(a) When service is effected pursuant to this section, the plaintiff shall forthwith send by first-class mail a notice of the service and a copy of the process to the defendant or respondent at the last address on file with the department.
(b) The plaintiff’s affidavit of compliance with this section shall be filed in the case on or before the return date of the process, if any, or within such further time as the court allows.
(Added by Stats. 1985, Ch. 1009, Sec. 1.)
2023 California Code › Business and Professions Code - BPC › DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS › PART 3 - REPRESENTATIONS TO THE PUBLIC › CHAPTER 1 - Advertising › ARTICLE 1.4 - Telephonic Sellers › Section 17511.7.

17511.7. No seller shall make or authorize the making of any references to its compliance with this article to any prospective or actual purchaser.
(Added by Stats. 1985, Ch. 1009, Sec. 1.)
2023 California Code › Business and Professions Code - BPC › DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS › PART 3 - REPRESENTATIONS TO THE PUBLIC › CHAPTER 1 - Advertising › ARTICLE 1.4 - Telephonic Sellers › Section 17511.8.

17511.8. No salesperson shall solicit prospective purchasers on behalf of a telephonic seller who is not currently registered with the department pursuant to this article. Any salesperson who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than six months, by a fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500), or by both that fine and imprisonment.
(Added by Stats. 1985, Ch. 1009, Sec. 1.)
2023 California Code › Business and Professions Code - BPC › DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS › PART 3 - REPRESENTATIONS TO THE PUBLIC › CHAPTER 1 - Advertising › ARTICLE 1.4 - Telephonic Sellers › Section 17511.9.

17511.9. Except as provided in Section 17511.8, any person, including, but not limited to, the seller, a salesperson, agent or representative of the seller, or an independent contractor, who willfully violates any provision of this article or who directly or indirectly employs any device, scheme, or artifice to deceive in connection with the offer or sale by any telephonic seller, or who willfully, directly, or indirectly, engages in any act, practice, or course of business which operates or would operate as a fraud or deceit upon any person in connection with a sale by any telephonic seller shall, upon conviction, be punished as follows:
(a) By a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for each unlawful transaction.
(b) By imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of the Penal Code, or by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year.
(c) By both the fine and imprisonment specified in subdivisions (a) and (b).
(Amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 15, Sec. 27. (AB 109) Effective April 4, 2011. Operative October 1, 2011, by Sec. 636 of Ch. 15, as amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 39, Sec. 68.)
2023 California Code › Business and Professions Code - BPC › DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS › PART 3 - REPRESENTATIONS TO THE PUBLIC › CHAPTER 1 - Advertising › ARTICLE 1.4 - Telephonic Sellers › Section 17511.10.

17511.10. The provisions of this article are not exclusive. The remedies specified in this article for violation of any section of this article or for conduct proscribed by any section of this article shall be in addition to any other procedures or remedies for any violation or conduct provided for in any other law.
Nothing in this article shall limit any other statutory or any common law rights of the Attorney General, any district attorney or city attorney, or any other person. If any act or practice proscribed by this article is also the basis for a cause of action in common law or a violation of another statute, the purchaser may assert the common law or statutory cause of action under the procedures and with the remedies applicable thereto.
(Added by Stats. 1985, Ch. 1009, Sec. 1.)
2023 California Code › Business and Professions Code - BPC › DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS › PART 3 - REPRESENTATIONS TO THE PUBLIC › CHAPTER 1 - Advertising › ARTICLE 1.4 - Telephonic Sellers › Section 17512.

17512. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to request or receive payment of any fee or consideration from a person for goods or services represented to recover or otherwise assist in the return of money or any other item of value paid for by, or promised to, that person in a previous telemarketing transaction, until seven business days after that money or other item is delivered to that person.
(b) This section shall not apply to an attorney licensed to practice law in this state and specifically retained for the recovery of money or any other item of value.
(c) Notwithstanding Section 17511.9, any person who violates subdivision (a) shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail for up to one year.
(Added by Stats. 1998, Ch. 446, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 1999.)
2023 California Code › Business and Professions Code - BPC › DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS › PART 3 - REPRESENTATIONS TO THE PUBLIC › CHAPTER 1 - Advertising › ARTICLE 1.4 - Telephonic Sellers › Section 17513.

17513. (a) It shall be unlawful for any telephonic seller to procure, either directly or through an agent, the services of any third-party delivery, courier, or other pickup service, for the purpose of obtaining a purchaser’s payment for goods sold by the telephonic seller, unless the goods are delivered before or at the same time the purchaser’s payment is obtained.
(b) Notwithstanding Section 17511.9, any person who violates subdivision (a) shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail for up to one year.
(Added by Stats. 1998, Ch. 446, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1999.)
2023 California Code › Business and Professions Code - BPC › DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS › PART 3 - REPRESENTATIONS TO THE PUBLIC › CHAPTER 1 - Advertising › ARTICLE 1.4 - Telephonic Sellers › Section 17514.

17514. (a) A person who sends a solicitation by mail that solicits a recipient to consent to receive information via telephone, where that recipient’s telephone number is not listed on the national “do not call” registry established and maintained by the Federal Trade Commission, as described in Section 310.4(b)(1)(iii)(B) of Title 16 of the Code of Federal Regulations, shall include in the solicitation a clear and conspicuous disclosure of the following information:
(1) Identification of the name of the sender of the mailing and of the entity that is requesting permission to call.
(2) The telephone number to which calls are to be placed.
(3) Notice that the recipient may be contacted by a telephone solicitor.
(b) A violation of this section shall not be a crime, notwithstanding Section 17534. However, all available civil remedies that are applicable to a violation of this section may be employed.
(Added by Stats. 2008, Ch. 738, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2009.)
2023 California Code › Business and Professions Code - BPC › DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS › PART 3 - REPRESENTATIONS TO THE PUBLIC › CHAPTER 1 - Advertising › ARTICLE 1.5 - Labeling of Products Made by the Blind › Section 17520.

17520. Any misrepresentation that goods offered for sale are the products of blind workers is hereby directed to be a special matter of state-wide concern.
(Added by Stats. 1957, Ch. 766.)
2023 California Code › Business and Professions Code - BPC › DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS › PART 3 - REPRESENTATIONS TO THE PUBLIC › CHAPTER 1 - Advertising › ARTICLE 1.5 - Labeling of Products Made by the Blind › Section 17521.

17521. As used in this article:
(a) “Blind” means a person having central visual acuity not to exceed 20-200 in the better eye, with corrected lenses, or visual acuity greater than 20-200, but with a limitation in the field of vision such that the widest diameter of the visual field subtends an angle not greater than 20 degrees.
(b) “Direct labor” means all work required for the preparation, processing, assembling, and packing, but not including supervision, administration, inspection, and shipping.
(Added by Stats. 1957, Ch. 766.)
2023 California Code › Business and Professions Code - BPC › DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS › PART 3 - REPRESENTATIONS TO THE PUBLIC › CHAPTER 1 - Advertising › ARTICLE 1.5 - Labeling of Products Made by the Blind › Section 17522.

17522. No goods or articles which are determined by label, symbol, trade name, or name of the manufacturer to indicate that they are made by blind workers shall be delivered or offered by any person, partnership, firm, corporation, institution, or association, for sale in this state unless at least 75 percent of the total hours of direct labor of producing such goods or articles purported to be made by the blind shall have been performed by the blind. No goods or articles which do not have a label, symbol, or other printed matter indicating that at least 75 percent of the total hours of direct labor of producing such goods or articles were made by the blind, as herein defined, shall be offered for sale directly or indirectly as being made by the blind unless such goods or articles were in fact so made by the blind as herein defined.
Any violation of this section is a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) or imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year, or by both the fine and imprisonment, and any such violation or threatened violation shall be actionable under Section 17535 of this chapter.
(Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 1092, Sec. 51. Effective September 27, 1983. Operative January 1, 1984, by Sec. 427 of Ch. 1092.)
2023 California Code › Business and Professions Code - BPC › DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS › PART 3 - REPRESENTATIONS TO THE PUBLIC › CHAPTER 1 - Advertising › ARTICLE 1.5 - Labeling of Products Made by the Blind › Section 17523.

17523. Any blind workman, who is a citizen or resident of this State, or any institution, public or private, corporation, partnership, and association engaged within this State in the manufacture, sale, or distribution of articles or merchandise, made, manufactured, or fabricated by blind workmen is authorized to imprint or stamp upon such articles or merchandise or affix thereto, labels containing the words “made by a blind workman,” or “made by the blind,” or “blind-made,” if not less than 75 percent of the total hours of direct labor of producing said products have been performed by a blind workman. Such labels, shall also have the place of manufacture on them and, if desired, the name of the particular workman who made, manufactured, or fabricated the article.
(Added by Stats. 1957, Ch. 766.)
2023 California Code › Business and Professions Code - BPC › DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS › PART 3 - REPRESENTATIONS TO THE PUBLIC › CHAPTER 1 - Advertising › ARTICLE 1.6 - Cyber Piracy › Section 17527.

17527. As used in this article:
(a) “Deceased personality” shall have the same meaning as defined in Section 3344.1 of the Civil Code.
(b) “Domain name” means any alphanumeric designation that is registered with or assigned by any domain name registrar, domain name registry, or other domain name registration authority as part of an electronic address on the internet.
(c) “Internet” shall have the meaning specified in Section 17538.
(d) “Traffic in” refers to transactions that include, but are not limited to, sales, purchases, loans, pledges, licenses, exchanges of currency, or any other transfer for consideration or receipt in exchange for consideration.
(Added by Stats. 2000, Ch. 218, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2001.)
2023 California Code › Business and Professions Code - BPC › DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS › PART 3 - REPRESENTATIONS TO THE PUBLIC › CHAPTER 1 - Advertising › ARTICLE 1.6 - Cyber Piracy › Section 17528.

17528. Jurisdiction for actions brought pursuant to this article shall be in accordance with Section 410.10 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
(Added by Stats. 2000, Ch. 218, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2001.)
2023 California Code › Business and Professions Code - BPC › DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS › PART 3 - REPRESENTATIONS TO THE PUBLIC › CHAPTER 1 - Advertising › ARTICLE 1.6 - Cyber Piracy › Section 17528.5.

17528.5. In addition to any other remedies available under law, a court may order the transfer of a domain name as part of the relief awarded for a violation of this article.
(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 277, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 2004.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
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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.
Schedule
Black and White Picture Tubes
Grade 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 Tubes
Grade 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 or
second line quality tube but it is capable of
giving satisfactory performance—
(Amended by Stats. 1969, Ch. 694.)
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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.)
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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.)
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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.)
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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.)
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17533.5. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association to sell or offer for sale any surplus materials as defined in the Federal Surplus Property Act of 1944, being Chapter 479, Public Laws United States 457, approved October 3, 1944, if such person, firm, corporation or association does business, carries on or trades under or in any way uses in dealing with the public, directly or indirectly, any name which by reason of the inclusion of a word or words such as “Army,” “Navy,” “United States,” “Federal,” “treasury,” “procurement,” “G.I.,” or any others which connote the United States Government or its armed forces or any of its departments or agencies, has a tendency to lead the purchasing public to believe, contrary to fact, that the establishment at which such materials are offered for sale has some official relationship to the United States Government or that all of the articles sold or offered for sale are such surplus materials or that the articles there sold are of higher quality and lower prices than those elsewhere obtainable; provided, however, that this section shall not prohibit the continued use of a trade name by an establishment which for three years prior to the effective date of this section has continually used such word or words as its trade name or as a portion thereof.
(Added by Stats. 1945, Ch. 1144.)
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17533.7. (a) It is unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, or association to sell or offer for sale in this state any merchandise on which merchandise or on its container there appears the words “Made in U.S.A.,” “Made in America,” “U.S.A.,” or similar words if the merchandise or any article, unit, or part thereof, has been entirely or substantially made, manufactured, or produced outside of the United States.
(b) This section shall not apply to merchandise made, manufactured, or produced in the United States that has one or more articles, units, or parts from outside of the United States, if all of the articles, units, or parts of the merchandise obtained from outside the United States constitute not more than 5 percent of the final wholesale value of the manufactured product.
(c) (1) This section shall not apply to merchandise made, manufactured, or produced in the United States that has one or more articles, units, or parts from outside of the United States, if both of the following apply:
(A) The manufacturer of the merchandise shows that it can neither produce the article, unit, or part within the United States nor obtain the article, unit, or part of the merchandise from a domestic source.
(B) All of the articles, units, or parts of the merchandise obtained from outside the United States constitute not more than 10 percent of the final wholesale value of the manufactured product.
(2) The determination that the article, unit, or part of the merchandise cannot be made, manufactured, produced, or obtained within the United States from a domestic source shall not be based on the cost of the article, unit, or part.
(d) This section shall not apply to merchandise sold for resale to consumers outside of California.
(e) For purposes of this section, merchandise sold or offered for sale outside of California shall not be deemed mislabeled if the label conforms to the law of the forum state or country within which they are sold or offered for sale.
(Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 238, Sec. 1. (SB 633) Effective January 1, 2016.)
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17533.8. (a) It is unlawful for any person to offer, by mail, by telephone, in person, or by any other means or in any other form, including over the Internet, a prize or gift, with the intent to offer a sales presentation, without disclosing at the time of the offer of the prize or gift, in a clear and unequivocal manner, the intent to offer that sales presentation.
(b) This section shall not apply to the publisher of any newspaper, periodical, or other publication, or any radio or television broadcaster, or the owner or operator of any cable, satellite, or other medium of communications who broadcasts or publishes, including over the Internet, an advertisement or offer in good faith, without knowledge of its violation of subdivision (a).
(Amended by Stats. 1998, Ch. 599, Sec. 11. Effective January 1, 1999.)
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17533.9. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, or association, in any newspaper, magazine, circular, form letter, or 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 the sale of tear gas, tear gas devices, and tear gas weapons, as defined in Sections 17240 and 17250 of the Penal Code, unless there is conspicuously displayed or stated in connection with the name and description of that tear gas, or those tear gas weapons or devices, a direct and unequivocal statement that will clearly indicate that possession or transportation of tear gas and tear gas weapons or devices is prohibited by law unless specifically exempted or permitted pursuant to the authority contained in Division 11 (commencing with Section 22810) of Title 3 of Part 6 of the Penal Code.
(Amended by Stats. 2010, Ch. 178, Sec. 14. (SB 1115) Effective January 1, 2011. Operative January 1, 2012, by Sec. 107 of Ch. 178.)
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17533.10. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, or association, in any newspaper, magazine, circular, form letter, or 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 the sale of anabolic steroids, as defined in subdivision (f) of Section 11056 of the Health and Safety Code, unless there is conspicuously displayed or stated in connection with the name and description of any of those anabolic steroids, a direct and unequivocal statement that will clearly indicate that the possession by, or sale to, an ultimate consumer of anabolic steroids is a crime punishable by a substantial fine and imprisonment, unless upon the prescription of a physician, dentist, podiatrist, or veterinarian, licensed to practice in this state, pursuant to Sections 11377, 11378, and 11379 of the Health and Safety Code.
(Amended by Stats. 1998, Ch. 599, Sec. 13. Effective January 1, 1999.)
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17534. Any person, firm, corporation, partnership or association or any employee or agent thereof who violates this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 63.)
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17534.5. 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. 1973, Ch. 393.)