California Business and Professions Code ARTICLE 2.6 - Sellers of Travel

  • Section 17550.
    (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(1) Certain advertising, sales, and business practices of sellers of travel have worked financial hardship upon the people...
  • Section 17550.1.
    (a) “Seller of travel” means a person who sells, provides, furnishes, contracts for, arranges, or advertises that he or she can or may arrange, or has...
  • Section 17550.2.
    “Advertise” means to make any representation in the solicitation of air or sea transportation, and includes communication with other members of the same partnership, corporation,...
  • Section 17550.3.
    “Passenger” is a person on whose behalf money or other consideration has been given or is to be given to another, including another member of...
  • Section 17550.4.
    An air carrier is a transporter by air of persons that operates under a certificate of convenience and necessity issued by the United States Department...
  • Section 17550.5.
    “Ticket or voucher” means a writing that is itself good and sufficient to obtain the entire air or ocean transportation, or travel services, which the...
  • Section 17550.6.
    “Officially appointed agent” means an agent expressly appointed as such, without reservation, for a specified time period, in a written instrument executed by the principal...
  • Section 17550.7.
    “Participant in the Travel Consumer Restitution Fund” is a registered seller of travel with its principal place of business in California, who does business with...
  • Section 17550.8.
    “Provider” means the person or entity who actually provides any transportation or travel services.(Added by Stats. 1994, Ch. 1123, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1995....
  • Section 17550.9.
    “Travel services” includes, but is not limited to, lodging, surface transportation, transfers, tours, meals, guides, baggage transfer, sightseeing, recreational activities, vehicle rental, or other travel-related...
  • Section 17550.10.a.
    “Travel certificate” means a writing that represents the holder is entitled to air or sea transportation or travel services, to a discount or reduced price...
  • Section 17550.11.
    (a) “Adequate bond” means a bond executed by an admitted surety insurer in an amount at all times no less than at least equal to the...
  • Section 17550.13.
    (a) (1) A seller of travel shall not receive any money or other valuable consideration in payment for air or sea transportation or other travel services offered...
  • Section 17550.14.
    (a) The seller of travel has an obligation either to provide the air or sea transportation or travel services purchased by the passenger or to make...
  • Section 17550.15.
    (a) This section applies to a seller of travel as defined in Section 17550.1.(b) The seller of travel shall deposit directly into a trust account in a...
  • Section 17550.16.
    (a) A seller of travel is exempt from the requirements of subdivisions (a) to (f), inclusive, of Section 17550.15 for all transactions in which the seller...
  • Section 17550.17.
    (a) This section does not apply to sellers of travel who are exempt from the requirements of Section 17550.15 pursuant to Section 17550.16.(b) Upon payment in full...
  • Section 17550.18.
    (a) If any provision of this article or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions...
  • Section 17550.19.
    In addition to any civil penalties provided in this division, violation of this article is punishable as follows:(a) As a misdemeanor by a fine of not...
  • Section 17550.195.
    (a) The Attorney General shall immediately suspend the registration of a seller of travel who has been convicted of a felony offense pursuant to Section 17550.19.(b) A...
  • Section 17550.20.a.
    (a) (1) Not less than 10 days prior to doing business in this state, a seller of travel shall apply for registration with the office of the...
  • Section 17550.21.
    Each filing pursuant to Section 17550.20 shall contain the following information:(a) The name or names of the seller of travel, including the name under which the...
  • Section 17550.22.
    No registration application shall be accepted for filing if it is incomplete or contains false information.(Added by Stats. 1994, Ch. 1123, Sec. 2. Effective January...
  • Section 17550.23.
    (a) The Travel Consumer Restitution Corporation shall notify the office of the Attorney General whenever a seller of travel with its principal place of business in...
  • Section 17550.24.
    (a) The Attorney General or his or her delegate shall issue a separate registration number to each registrant whose registration is accepted. That registration number shall...
  • Section 17550.25.
    (a) All sellers of travel who are participants shall comply with Article 2.7 (commencing with Section 17550.35) prior to engaging in those sales.(b) Any seller of travel...
  • Section 17550.26.
    (a) For the purposes of this section, “travel business discount program” means a membership, benefit program, identification card, identifying number, or other arrangement that identifies the...
  • Section 17550.27.
    (a) For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings:(1) “Seller of travel discount program” means a membership, benefit program, or other...
  • Section 17550.30.a.
    (a) The Travel Seller Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. All fines, penalties, and fees, including late fees, collected pursuant to this article, and...

Last modified: October 22, 2018