California Business and Professions Code ARTICLE 2 - Definitions

• Section 17020.
  The definitions in this article shall be used in construing this chapter.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 526.)
• Section 17021.
  “Person” includes any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, company, corporation or municipal or other public corporation.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 526.)
• Section 17022.
  “Sell” includes selling, offering for sale or advertising for sale.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 526.)
• Section 17023.
  “Give” includes giving, offering to give or advertising the intent to give.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 526.)
• Section 17024.
  “Article or product” includes any article, product, commodity, thing of value, service or output of a service trade.Motion picture films when licensed for exhibition to...
• Section 17025.
  “Vendor” includes any person who performs work upon, renovates, alters or improves any personal property belonging to another person.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 526.)
• Section 17026.
  “Cost” as applied to production includes the cost of raw materials, labor, and all overhead expenses of the producer.“Cost” as applied to distribution means the...
• Section 17026.1.
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 17026, commissions or rebates regularly earned by the retailers of cellular telephones may be used to reduce cost, provided, that...
• Section 17026.5.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 17026, regular term discounts granted to distributors by manufacturers of cigarettes for cash payment customarily offered to distributors without discrimination...
• Section 17027.
  In establishing the cost of a given article or product to the distributor and vendor, the invoice cost of the article or product purchased at...
• Section 17028.
  “Ordinary channels of trade” means those ordinary, regular and daily transactions in the mercantile trade whereby title to an article or product, in no way...
• Section 17029.
  “Cost of doing business” or “overhead expense” means all costs of doing business incurred in the conduct of the business and shall include without limitation...
• Section 17030.
  “Loss leader” means any article or product sold at less than cost:(a) Where the purpose is to induce, promote or encourage the purchase of other merchandise;...
• Section 17031.
  Locality discrimination means a discrimination between different sections, communities or cities or portions thereof, or between different locations in such sections, communities, cities or portions...

Last modified: October 22, 2018