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California Business And Professions Code Section 9801

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The following terms as used in this chapter have the meaning
expressed in this section:
   (a) "Person" includes a firm, partnership, association, limited
liability company, or corporation.
   (b) "Department" means the Department of Consumer Affairs.
   (c) "Director" means the Director of Consumer Affairs.
   (d) "Bureau" means the Bureau of Electronic and Appliance Repair.

   (e) "Chief" means the Chief of the Bureau of Electronic and
Appliance Repair.
   (f) "Service dealer" means a person who, for compensation, engages
in, or holds himself or herself out to the public as offering
services in the business of:
   (1) Repairing, servicing, or maintaining an electronic set
normally used or sold for personal, family, household, or home office
use.
   (2) Installing, repairing, servicing, or maintaining equipment or
a burglar alarm system for use in private motor vehicles.
   (3) Installing, repairing, servicing, or maintaining television or
radio receiver antennas, rotators, and accessories or direct
satellite signal receiving equipment located on or adjacent to a
residence and not involving a function that is subject to and
regulated under the provisions of Chapter 9 (commencing with Section
7000).
   (4) Repairing, servicing, or maintaining major appliances.
   (g) "Equipment" for the purposes of this chapter means an
electronic set, appliance, antenna, rotator, and accessories.
   (h) "Electronic set" includes, but is not limited to, any
television, radio, audio or video recorder or playback equipment,
video camera, video game, video monitor, computer system,
photocopier, or facsimile machine normally used or sold for personal,
family, household, or home office use.
   (i) "Appliance" or "major home appliance" includes, but is not
limited to, any refrigerator, freezer, range, microwave oven, washer,
dryer, dishwasher, trash compactor, or room air-conditioner normally
used or sold for personal, family, household, or home office use, or
for use in private motor vehicles.
   (j) "Antenna" includes, but is not limited to, a resonant device
designed especially for the purpose of capturing electromagnetic
energy transmitted by direct satellite or commercial radio or
television broadcasting facilities.  An antenna and its associated
accessories are not deemed to be a part of a set and shall be
considered, under this section, to be located outside or in the attic
of a residence.
   (k) "Rotator," when used in connection with an antenna
installation or repair, includes, but is not limited to, an
electromechanical device operated from a remote location to rotate an
antenna on a horizontal plane.  A rotator and its associated
accessories are not deemed to be a part of a set and shall be
considered under this section, with the exception of the directional
control unit, to be located outside or in the attic of a residence.
   (l) "Accessories," when used in connection with an antenna or
rotator installation or repair, includes, but is not limited to,
masts, towers, clamps, guy wires, eye hooks, standoff insulators,
roof saddles, vent pipe mounts, chimney mount kits, signal
amplifiers/boosters, multiset couplers, transmission lines, control
cables, directional control units, and other devices as may be used
from time to time to effect installation or repair.
   (m) "Computer system" includes, but is not limited to, a central
processing unit that performs data manipulation functions, and any
associated peripheral devices, including, but not limited to,
keyboards, display terminals, printers, or disk drives.
   (n) "Video game" includes, but is not limited to, any electronic
amusement device that utilizes a computer, microprocessor, or similar
electronic circuitry and its own cathode ray tube or a television
set or a monitor.
   (o) "Direct satellite signal receiving equipment" includes, but is
not limited to, receivers, down converters, amplifiers, and audio or
video processors related to the reception of audio, video, or data
signals broadcasted or rebroadcasted by communication satellites
located in space.
   (p) "Electronic repair industry" means those activities defined in
paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of subdivision (f).
   (q) "Appliance repair industry" means those activities defined in
paragraph (4) of subdivision (f).

Last modified: January 12, 2009