California Business and Professions Code ARTICLE 2 - Particular Offenses

  • Section 17530.
    It is unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, or association, or any employee or agent therefor, to make or disseminate any statement or assertion of...
  • Section 17530.1.
    (a) It shall be unlawful for a person to recommend to a prospective trustor any person to serve as trustee with knowledge or having reason to...
  • Section 17530.5.
    (a) It is a misdemeanor for any person, including an individual, firm, corporation, association, partnership, or joint venture, or any employee or agent thereof, to disclose...
  • Section 17530.7.
    It is unlawful for any person, other than a funeral director as defined in Section 7615, to sell, or offer to sell, on a retail...
  • Section 17531.
    It is unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation, in any newspaper, magazine, circular, form letter or any open publication, published, distributed, or circulated in...
  • Section 17531.1.
    Every manufacturer, wholesaler, jobber, distributor, or other person, who packages children’s toys for sale to any retailer, shall clearly state on the outside of the...
  • Section 17531.3.
    (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:(1) “Educational conference” means a conference, forum, camp, or other similar event, intended to develop...
  • Section 17531.5.
    It is unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation, in any newspaper, magazine, circular, form letter, or any open publication, published, distributed, or circulated in...
  • Section 17531.6.
    As used in Sections 17531.7 and 17531.8, the term:(a) “Picture tube” means cathode ray tube, otherwise known as kinescope or CRT.(b) “Rejuvenate,” or words of like import...
  • Section 17531.7.
    (a) No manufacturer, processor, or distributor of television picture tubes shall sell, offer for sale, or expose for sale any such tube unless the television picture...
  • Section 17531.8.
    No person other than a purchaser at retail for his own use and consumption shall remove, deface, cover, obliterate, mutilate, alter, or cause to be...
  • Section 17531.9.
    Any person violating any of the provisions of Section 17531.7 or 17531.8 may be enjoined by any superior court of competent jurisdiction upon action for...
  • Section 17532.
    It is unlawful wilfully or knowingly, with intent to defraud, to sell or exchange, or offer or expose for sale or exchange, coal of a...
  • Section 17533.
    It is unlawful for any proprietor or publisher of any newspaper or periodical, including any newspaper or periodical published over the Internet, willfully and knowingly...
  • Section 17533.5.
    It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association to sell or offer for sale any surplus materials as defined in the Federal...
  • Section 17533.6.
    (a) Except as described in subdivisions (b) and (c), it is unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, or association that is a nongovernmental entity to use...
  • Section 17533.6.5.
    (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a person, firm, corporation, or association that is a nongovernmental entity may solicit a fee for providing a copy of a...
  • Section 17533.7.
    (a) It is unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, or association to sell or offer for sale in this state any merchandise on which merchandise or...
  • Section 17533.8.
    (a) It is unlawful for any person to offer, by mail, by telephone, in person, or by any other means or in any other form, including...
  • Section 17533.9.
    It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, or association, in any newspaper, magazine, circular, form letter, or open publication, published, distributed, or circulated...
  • Section 17533.10.
    It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, or association, in any newspaper, magazine, circular, form letter, or open publication, published, distributed, or circulated...
  • Section 17534.
    Any person, firm, corporation, partnership or association or any employee or agent thereof who violates this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor.(Added by Stats. 1941,...
  • Section 17534.5.
    Unless otherwise expressly provided, the remedies or penalties provided by this chapter are cumulative to each other and to the remedies or penalties available under...
  • Section 17535.
    Obtaining Injunctive ReliefAny person, corporation, firm, partnership, joint stock company, or any other association or organization which violates or proposes to violate this chapter may...
  • Section 17535.5.
    (a) Any person who intentionally violates any injunction issued pursuant to Section 17535 shall be liable for a civil penalty not to exceed six thousand dollars...
  • Section 17536.
    Penalty for Violations of Chapter; Proceedings; Disposition of Proceeds(a) Any person who violates any provision of this chapter shall be liable for a civil penalty not...
  • Section 17536.5.
    If a violation of this chapter is alleged or the application or construction of this chapter is in issue in any proceeding in the Supreme...
  • Section 17537.
    (a) It is unlawful for any person to use the term “prize” or “gift” or other similar term in any manner that would be untrue or...
  • Section 17537.1.
    (a) It is unlawful for any person, or an employee, agent, or independent contractor employed or authorized by that person, by any means, as part of...
  • Section 17537.2.
    The following, when used as part of an advertising plan or program defined in Section 17537.1, are deceptive and constitute unfair trade practices:(a) When, in order...
  • Section 17537.3.
    The following acts are prohibited:(a) For any person to offer as part of an advertising plan or program, promotional offers of smokeless tobacco products which require...
  • Section 17537.4.
    If the person making an offer subject to Section 17537 or to subdivision (a) of Section 17537.1, or any employee, agent, or independent contractor employed...
  • Section 17537.5.
    (a) It is unlawful for any person soliciting a sale or order for energy conservation products or services, including over the Internet, to do any of...
  • Section 17537.6.
    (a) It is unlawful for any person to make any untrue or misleading statements in any manner in connection with the offering or performance of a...
  • Section 17537.7.
    Except as to communications described in paragraph (2) of subdivision (n) of Section 11713.1 of the Vehicle Code, it is unlawful for any person to...
  • Section 17537.8.
    (a) It is unlawful for any person to make any untrue or misleading statements in any manner in connection with the offering or performance of a...
  • Section 17537.9.
    (a) It is unlawful for any person to make any untrue or misleading statements in any manner in connection with the offering or performance of an...
  • Section 17537.10.a.
    (a) It is unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, association, or any other business entity to make any untrue or misleading statements in any manner in...
  • Section 17537.11.
    (a) It is unlawful for any person to offer a coupon that is in any manner untrue or misleading.(b) It is unlawful for any person to offer...
  • Section 17537.12.
    (a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the Truth in Music Advertising Act.(b) As used in this section, the following terms have the...
  • Section 17537.15.
    (a) For purposes of this section, “floral or ornamental products or services” means floral arrangements, cut flowers, floral bouquets, potted plants, balloons, floral designs, and related...
  • Section 17538.
    (a) It is unlawful in the sale or lease or offering for sale or lease of goods or services, for any person conducting sales or leases...
  • Section 17538.3.
    The provisions of Section 17538 do not apply to any of the following, except that subdivisions (d) and (e) of Section 17538 shall apply to...
  • Section 17538.35.
    (a) Unless otherwise permitted by law or contract, any provider of electronic mail service shall provide each customer with notice at least 30 days before permanently...
  • Section 17538.41.
    (a) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (b), (c), (d), or (e), no person, entity conducting business, candidate, or political committee in this state shall transmit, or...
  • Section 17538.43.
    (a) As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings:(1) “Telephone facsimile machine” means equipment that has the capacity to do either or both...
  • Section 17538.45.
    (a) For purposes of this section, the following words have the following meanings:(1) “Electronic mail advertisement” means any electronic mail message, the principal purpose of which is...
  • Section 17538.5.
    (a) It is unlawful in the sale or offering for sale of consumer goods or services for any person conducting, any business in this state which...
  • Section 17538.6.
    (a) It is unlawful for any person conducting business in this state to require or request a consumer to issue a postdated check unless (1) the...
  • Section 17538.7.
    (a) It is unlawful for a seller to advertise any payment, number of payments, or period of repayment for any goods, property, or services purchased through...
  • Section 17538.8.
    Any advertisement that offers free or discounted transportation or certificates to obtain transportation and that requires the consumer to purchase accommodations through or from a...
  • Section 17538.9.
    (a)For the purposes of this section:(1) “Ancillary charges” means all surcharges, taxes, fees, connection charges, maintenance fees, monthly or other periodic fees, per-call access fees, or...
  • Section 17539.
    The Legislature finds that there is a compelling need for more complete disclosure of rules and operation of contests in which money or other valuable...
  • Section 17539.1.
    (a) The following unfair acts or practices undertaken by, or omissions of, any person in the operation of any contest or sweepstakes are prohibited:(1) Failing to clearly...
  • Section 17539.15.
    (a) Solicitation materials containing sweepstakes entry materials or solicitation materials selling information regarding sweepstakes shall not represent, taking into account the context in which the representation...
  • Section 17539.2.
    Every person who conducts any contest shall:(a) Clearly and conspicuously disclose on each entry blank the deadline for submission of that entry.(b) Refund all money or other...
  • Section 17539.3.
    (a) Sections 17539.1 and 17539.2 do not apply to a game conducted to promote the sale of an employer’s product or service by his or her...
  • Section 17539.35.
    No person shall advertise, offer, or operate any contest, as defined in subdivision (e) of Section 17539.3, in which any prize, including any money, property,...
  • Section 17539.4.
    No person shall place an advertisement disseminated primarily in this state for a loan which utilizes real property as collateral unless there is disclosed within...
  • Section 17539.5.
    (a) For purposes of this section and Sections 17539.55 and 17539.6:(1) “Broadcast” means the utilization of radio, television, home videos, movie screens, telephones, or other medium, including...
  • Section 17539.55.
    (a) It shall be unlawful to operate a sweepstakes in this state through the use of a 900 number, unless the information provider registers with the...
  • Section 17539.6.
    Any broadcast or print advertisement or notice that contains a 900 number shall be written or spoken in the same language as the language used...

Last modified: October 22, 2018