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California Business And Professions Code Section 17204

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Actions for Injunctions by Attorney General, District
Attorney, County Counsel, and City Attorneys
   Actions 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 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.

Last modified: January 12, 2009