California Business and Professions Code ARTICLE 1 - False Advertising in General

• Section 17500.
  It is unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association, or any employee thereof with intent directly or indirectly to dispose of real or personal...
• Section 17500.1.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no trade or professional association, or state agency, state board, or state commission within the Department of Consumer Affairs...
• Section 17500.3.
  (a) It is unlawful for any person to solicit a sale or order for sale of goods or services at the residence of a prospective buyer,...
• Section 17500.5.
  (a) It is unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association to falsely represent by advertisement the quantity of any article so advertised that will be...
• Section 17501.
  For the purpose of this article the worth or value of any thing advertised is the prevailing market price, wholesale if the offer is at...
• Section 17502.
  This article does not apply to any visual or sound radio broadcasting station, to any internet service provider or commercial online service, or to any...
• Section 17504.
  (a) Any person, partnership, corporation, firm, joint stock company, association, or organization engaged in business in this state as a retail seller who sells any consumer...
• Section 17505.
  No person shall state, in an advertisement of his goods, that he is a producer, manufacturer, processor, wholesaler, or importer, or that he owns or...
• Section 17505.2.
  (a) It is unlawful for a person to represent himself or herself as a recreation therapist, to represent the services he or she performs as recreation...
• Section 17506.
  As used in this chapter, “person” includes any individual, partnership, firm, association, or corporation.(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 664.)
• Section 17506.5.
  As used in this chapter:(a) “Board within the Department of Consumer Affairs” includes any commission, bureau, division, or other similarly constituted agency within the Department of...
• Section 17507.
  It is unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association to make an advertising claim or representation pertaining to more than one article of merchandise...
• Section 17508.
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any person doing business in California and advertising to consumers in California to make any false or misleading advertising claim,...
• Section 17509.
  (a) Any advertisement, including any advertisement over the Internet, soliciting the purchase or lease of a product or service, or any combination thereof, that requires, as...

Last modified: October 22, 2018