California Business and Professions Code CHAPTER 3 - Trading Stamp Company Act

  • Section 17750.
    “Trading stamp” means any stamp or similar device issued in connection with the retail sale of merchandise or service, as a cash discount, or for...
  • Section 17751.
    “Trading stamp” also means any stamp or similar device issued as a gift or as a consideration in any transaction other than in connection with...
  • Section 17752.
    “Trading stamp” does not include any redeemable device used by the manufacturer or packer of an article, in advertising or selling the article, or any...
  • Section 17753.
    “Trading stamp” does not include any coupon, ticket, certificate, card, or other similar device prepared by a merchant using that device and distributed by the...
  • Section 17754.
    The Legislature finds and declares that the devices described in Sections 17752, 17753, and 17760 are not employed in connection with improper activities of irresponsible...
  • Section 17755.
    “Trading stamp company” means any person engaged in any manner in distributing trading stamps for retail issuance by others or in redeeming trading stamps for...
  • Section 17756.
    “Person” means any individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, association, or other organization.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1997, Ch. 310, Sec. 2. Effective January 1,
  • Section 17757.
    “Organization” means any partnership, corporation, limited liability company, or association.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1997, Ch. 310, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1998.)
  • Section 17758.
    “Issue” includes use, distribute, give away, sell, furnish, and licensing that use, distribution, gift, sale or furnishing.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1997, Ch. 310, Sec....
  • Section 17759.
    “Merchant” includes retailer, person dealing in services, or person in a similar capacity.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1997, Ch. 310, Sec. 2. Effective January 1,
  • Section 17760.
    The provisions of this chapter do not apply to nonprofit merchant organizations that guarantee redemption of trading stamps that are exclusively issued and redeemed by...
  • Section 17761.
    It is unlawful for any person to issue any trading stamp unless the stamp has imprinted on it both of the following:(a) The name of the...
  • Section 17762.
    Any trading stamp company shall redeem upon presentation any trading stamp that it has issued, either in merchandise, service, or cash, at the option of...
  • Section 17763.
    It is unlawful for any person to willfully issue or redeem any trading stamp without the consent of the trading stamp company that issued the...
  • Section 17764.
    Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit any person from redeeming, pursuant to contract, any trading stamps issued on or before December 31, 1997.(Repealed and added...
  • Section 17765.
    Any person who advertises the giving of trading stamps, or who gives trading stamps, with the sale of any merchandise or service, shall give those...
  • Section 17766.
    Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as requiring the giving of trading stamps with any sale of merchandise or service when the giving of...
  • Section 17767.
    If a trading stamp company fails to redeem any of its trading stamps, any rightful holder of those stamps may bring a civil action for...
  • Section 17768.
    Any merchant who has issued to his or her customers or other persons the trading stamps of any trading stamp company subject to this chapter,...
  • Section 17769.
    No trading stamp company shall cease issuing trading stamps unless it gives written notice at least 90 days prior to that cessation to each merchant...
  • Section 17770.
    Any person violating any provision of this chapter shall be liable for a civil penalty not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each violation,...
  • Section 17771.
    Any person who willfully violates any provision of this chapter shall upon conviction be fined not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000).(Repealed and added by...
  • Section 17772.
    Trading stamps issued by a trading stamp company subject to this chapter are exempt from the Corporate Securities Law of 1968 (Division 1 (commencing with...
  • Section 17773.
    Nothing in this chapter, nor in this code, shall be construed to require that the cash or merchandise value of trading stamps be stated or...

Last modified: October 22, 2018