California

Business and Professions Code - BPC

10,525 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 17206 — Civil Penalty for Violation of Chapter (a) Any person who engages, has engaged, or proposes to engage in unfair competition shall be liable for a civil penalty not to exceed two thousand five hundred
• § 17206.1 — (a) (1) In addition to any liability for a civil penalty pursuant to Section 17206, a person who violates this chapter, and the act or acts of unfair competition are perpetrated against one or more se
• § 17206.2 — (a) (1) In addition to any liability for a civil penalty pursuant to Section 17206, a person who violates this chapter, if the act or acts of unfair competition are perpetrated against one or more ser
• § 17207 — (a) Any person who intentionally violates any injunction prohibiting unfair competition issued pursuant to Section 17203 shall be liable for a civil penalty not to exceed six thousand dollars ($6,000)
• § 17208 — Any action to enforce any cause of action pursuant to this chapter shall be commenced within four years after the cause of action accrued.
• § 17209 — 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 Court of California, a state court of appeal, or the appellate
• § 1721 — Except as provided in Sections 1944 and 1945, all funds received by the Treasurer under the authority of this chapter shall be placed in the State Dentistry Fund.
• § 1721.5 — All funds received by the Treasurer pursuant to Section 1725 shall be placed in the State Dentistry Fund for the purposes of administering this chapter as it relates to dental assistants, registered d
• § 17210 — (a) For purposes of this section, “hotel” means any hotel, motel, bed and breakfast inn, or other similar transient lodging establishment, but it does not include any residential hotel as defined in S
• § 1722 — The amount of seven hundred dollars ($700) of the fund shall constitute a revolving fund and may be drawn upon the warrant of the president and secretary of the board without being audited in the usua
• § 1723 — All fines, penalties, and forfeitures, including the examination fee, imposed or collected by the board under any provision of this chapter shall be paid to the executive officer.
• § 1724 — The amount of charges and fees for dentists licensed pursuant to this chapter shall be established by the board as is necessary for the purpose of carrying out the responsibilities required by this ch
• § 1724.5 — The amount of fees payable in connection with permits issued under Section 1701.
• § 1725 — The amount of the fees prescribed by this chapter that relate to the licensing and permitting of dental assistants shall be established by regulation and subject to the following limitations: (a) The
• § 17350 — With respect to contracts entered into on or after the effective date of this chapter, no financial institution shall enter into a contract which provides for reassignment.
• § 17351 — For the purposes of this chapter: (a) “Financial institution” means a bank, savings and loan association, or credit union chartered under the laws of this state or the United States or any other perso
• § 17360 — As used in this chapter, “person” includes an individual, partnership, firm, association, or corporation.
• § 17361 — Any person offering for sale or selling telephone handsets or keysets or private branch exchanges or private automatic branch exchanges of not more than 20-station capacity, whether new or recondition
• § 17362 — A retailer of telephone equipment shall give clear and conspicuous notice, both on the sale premises and in advertising and catalogs for telephone equipment, except point-of-sale advertising, of the p
• § 17363 — Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, Sections 17361 and 17362 do not apply to any of the following: (a) Institutional advertising directed to a general audience rather than to individu
• § 17363.5 — Any person advertising or offering for sale automatic dialing-announcing devices, as defined in Section 2871 of the Public Utilities Code, shall specify on all advertising therefor and in the instruct
• § 17364 — Every failure to comply with any provision of this chapter constitutes unfair competition and shall be enforced under Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 17200).
• § 17365 — This chapter shall become operative on November 1, 1983.
• § 1740 — It is the intention of the Legislature by enactment of this article to permit the full utilization of dental assistants in order to meet the dental care needs of all the state’s citizens.
• § 1741 — As used in this article: (a) “Alternative dental assisting program” means a program offered by an institution of secondary or postsecondary education that has a current accreditation from the Commissi
• § 1742 — (a) There is hereby created a Dental Assisting Council of the Dental Board of California, which shall consider all matters relating to dental assistants in this state, on its own initiative or upon th
• § 1743 — (a) The board shall have the following duties and authority related to applications: (1) Shall review and evaluate all applications for licensure in all dental assisting categories to ascertain whethe
• § 1747 — The procedure on all matters relating to the denial, suspension, or revocation of licenses granted under this article shall be governed by the provisions of Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500) o
• § 1750 — (a) A dental assistant is an individual who, without a license, may perform basic supportive dental procedures, as authorized by Section 1750.
• § 1750.1 — (a) A dental assistant may perform the following duties under the general supervision and pursuant to the order, control, and full professional responsibility of a licensed dentist: (1) Extraoral duti
• § 1750.2 — (a) The board may issue an orthodontic assistant permit to a person who files a completed application, pays the applicable fee, and provides evidence, satisfactory to the board, of the following eligi
• § 1750.3 — (a) A person holding an orthodontic assistant permit pursuant to Section 1750.
• § 1750.4 — (a) The board may issue a dental sedation assistant permit to a person who files a completed application, pays the applicable fee, and provides evidence, satisfactory to the board, of all of the follo
• § 1750.5 — (a) A person who holds a dental sedation assistant permit pursuant to Section 1750.
• § 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 property or to perform services, professional
• § 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 shall enact any rule, regu
• § 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, in person or by means of telephone, without clearly, affirmatively a
• § 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 sold to any one customer on his demand
• § 17500.6 — (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Clear and conspicuous” means in a manner that clearly calls attention to the language, such as in larger type than the surroundi
• § 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 wholesale, retail if the offer is at retail, at the time of publ
• § 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 publisher of a newspaper, magazine, or other pub
• § 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 good or service which is s
• § 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 controls a factory or other source of supply of goo
• § 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 therapy, or to use terms set forth in subdivision
• § 17506 — As used in this chapter, “person” includes any individual, partnership, firm, association, or corporation.
• § 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 Consumer Affair
• § 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 or type of service, within the same cl
• § 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, including claims that (1) purport to
• § 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 a condition of sale, the p
• § 1751 — At least once every seven years, the board shall review the allowable duties for dental assistants, registered dental assistants, registered dental assistants in extended functions, dental sedation as
• § 17510 — (a) The Legislature finds that there exists in the area of solicitations and sales solicitations for charitable purposes a condition which has worked fraud, deceit and imposition upon the people of th
• § 17510.1 — As used in this article, “sale” shall include a gift made with the hope or expectation of monetary compensation.
• § 17510.2 — (a) As used in this article, “solicitation for charitable purposes,” means any request, plea, entreaty, demand, or invitation, or attempt thereof, to give money or property, in connection with which a
• § 17510.25 — (a) A charity, as defined in subdivision (e), may engage in a solicitation for charitable purposes that involves persons standing in a public roadway soliciting contributions from passing motorists, i
• § 17510.3 — (a) Prior to any solicitation or sales solicitation for charitable purposes, the solicitor or seller shall exhibit to the prospective donor or purchaser a card entitled “Solicitation or Sale for Chari
• § 17510.4 — If the initial solicitation or sales solicitation is made by radio, television, letter, telephone, or any other means not involving direct personal contact with the person solicited, including over th
• § 17510.5 — (a) The financial records of a soliciting organization shall be maintained on the basis of generally accepted accounting principles as defined by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• § 17510.6 — The provisions of this article shall not apply to solicitations, sales, offers, or attempts to sell within the membership of a charitable organization or upon its regular occupied premises, nor shall
• § 17510.7 — Compliance with any city or county ordinance which provides for disclosure of information relating to solicitations or sales solicitations for charitable purposes substantially similar to and no less
• § 17510.8 — Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, there exists a fiduciary relationship between a charity or any person soliciting on behalf of a charity, and the person from whom a charitable cont
• § 17510.85 — (a) An individual, corporation, or other legal entity who for compensation solicits funds or other property in this state for charitable purposes shall disclose prior to an oral solicitation or sales
• § 17510.87 — Any individual, corporation, or other legal entity who, for compensation, solicits funds or other property in this state for charitable purposes is prohibited from retaining more than 50 percent of th
• § 17510.9 — (a) A charity engaged in any solicitation or sales solicitation for charitable purposes, that collected more than 50 percent of its annual income and more than one million dollars ($1,000,000) in char
• § 17510.95 — The Attorney General shall annually publish a report that includes information provided to the Registry of Charities and Fundraisers pursuant to Section 17510.
• § 17511 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the widespread use of telephone solicitors to initiate sales of goods, real property, and investment opportunities has created numerous problems for purchas
• § 17511.1 — As used in this article, “telephonic seller” or “seller” means a person who, on their own behalf or through salespersons or through the use of an automatic dialing-announcing device, as defined in Sec
• § 17511.10 — The provisions of this article are not exclusive.
• § 17511.12 — (a) Every telephonic seller shall maintain a bond issued by a surety company admitted to do business in this state.
• § 17511.2 — As used in this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) “Department” means the Department of Justice.
• § 17511.3 — (a) Not less than 10 days before doing business in this state, a telephonic seller shall register with the department by filing with the Consumer Protection Section of the department the information r
• § 17511.4 — Each filing pursuant to Section 17511.
• § 17511.5 — In addition to complying with the requirements of Section 17500.
• § 17511.6 — Every telephonic seller shall file with the Attorney General, in the form prescribed by the Attorney General, an irrevocable consent appointing the Attorney General to act as the seller’s attorney to
• § 17511.7 — No seller shall make or authorize the making of any references to its compliance with this article to any prospective or actual purchaser.
• § 17511.8 — No salesperson shall solicit prospective purchasers on behalf of a telephonic seller who is not currently registered with the department pursuant to this article.
• § 17511.9 — Except as provided in Section 17511.
• § 17512 — (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to request or receive payment of any fee or consideration from a person for goods or services represented to recover or otherwise assist in the return of money
• § 17513 — (a) It shall be unlawful for any telephonic seller to procure, either directly or through an agent, the services of any third-party delivery, courier, or other pickup service, for the purpose of obtai
• § 17514 — (a) A person who sends a solicitation by mail that solicits a recipient to consent to receive information via telephone, where that recipient’s telephone number is not listed on the national “do not c
• § 1752.1 — (a) The board may license as a registered dental assistant a person who files an application, pays the applicable fee, and submits written evidence, satisfactory to the board, of one of the following
• § 1752.4 — (a) A registered dental assistant may perform all of the following duties and procedures of a dental assistant as specified in subdivisions (a), (b), and (c) of Section 1750.
• § 1752.6 — A registered dental assistant licensed on and after January 1, 2010, shall provide evidence of successful completion of a board-approved course in the application of pit and fissure sealants prior to
• § 17520 — Any misrepresentation that goods offered for sale are the products of blind workers is hereby directed to be a special matter of state-wide concern.
• § 17521 — As used in this article: (a) “Blind” means a person having central visual acuity not to exceed 20-200 in the better eye, with corrected lenses, or visual acuity greater than 20-200, but with a limitat
• § 17522 — No goods or articles which are determined by label, symbol, trade name, or name of the manufacturer to indicate that they are made by blind workers shall be delivered or offered by any person, partner
• § 17523 — Any blind workman, who is a citizen or resident of this State, or any institution, public or private, corporation, partnership, and association engaged within this State in the manufacture, sale, or d
• § 17525 — (a) It is unlawful for a person, with a bad faith intent, to register, traffic in, or use a domain or subdomain name that is identical or confusingly similar to, because of, among other things, misspe
• § 17526 — In determining whether there is a bad faith intent pursuant to Section 17525, a court, consistent with 15 U.
• § 17527 — As used in this article: (a) “Deceased personality” shall have the same meaning as defined in Section 3344.
• § 17528 — Jurisdiction for actions brought pursuant to this article shall be in accordance with Section 410.
• § 17528.5 — In addition to any other remedies available under law, a court may order the transfer of a domain name as part of the relief awarded for a violation of this article.
• § 17529 — The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) Roughly 40 percent of all e-mail traffic in the United States is comprised of unsolicited commercial e-mail advertisements (hereafte
• § 17529.1 — For the purpose of this article, the following definitions apply: (a) “Advertiser” means a person or entity that advertises through the use of commercial e-mail advertisements.
• § 17529.2 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person or entity may not do any of the following: (a) Initiate or advertise in an unsolicited commercial e-mail advertisement from California or advertise
• § 17529.3 — Nothing in this article shall be construed to limit or restrict the adoption, implementation, or enforcement by a provider of Internet access service of a policy of declining to transmit, receive, rou
• § 17529.4 — (a) It is unlawful for any person or entity to collect electronic mail addresses posted on the Internet if the purpose of the collection is for the electronic mail addresses to be used to do either of
• § 17529.5 — (a) It is unlawful for any person or entity to advertise in a commercial e-mail advertisement either sent from California or sent to a California electronic mail address under any of the following cir
• § 17529.8 — (a) (1) In addition to any other remedies provided by this article or by any other provisions of law, a recipient of an unsolicited commercial e-mail advertisement transmitted in violation of this art
• § 17529.9 — The provisions of this article are severable.
• § 1753 — (a) On and after January 1, 2010, the board may license as a registered dental assistant in extended functions a person who files a completed application, pays the applicable fee, and submits written
• § 1753.5 — (a) A registered dental assistant in extended functions licensed on or after January 1, 2010, is authorized to perform all duties and procedures that a registered dental assistant is authorized to per
• § 1753.51 — (a) Unless otherwise specified in this section, a registered dental assistant in extended functions licensed on or after January 1, 2010, who successfully completes a board-approved course in interim
• § 1753.52 — (a) On or after January 1, 2026, a provider of a course for instruction in interim therapeutic restorations and radiographic decisionmaking for a registered dental assistant in extended functions shal
• § 1753.55 — (a) A registered dental assistant in extended functions is authorized to perform the additional duties as set forth in subdivision (b) pursuant to the order, control, and full professional responsibil
• § 1753.6 — Each person who holds a license as a registered dental assistant in extended functions on the operative date of this section may only perform those procedures that a registered dental assistant is all
• § 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 fact in a newspaper, circular, circular or for
• § 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 believe that the proposed trustee is insolvent or is about
• § 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 any information obtained i
• § 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 basis, a casket, alternative container, or outer burial container, unles
• § 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 this state, including over the
• § 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 package that the toy is unassembl
• § 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 the leaders
• § 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 the State of California, inclu
• § 17531.6 — As used in Sections 17531.
• § 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 tube and its container, if any, ar
• § 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 removed, defaced, covered, obliterated, mutilated, o
• § 17531.9 — Any person violating any of the provisions of Section 17531.
• § 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 specific name or kind under any other name or description, or as t
• § 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 to misrepresent the circulatio
• § 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 in this state, inc
• § 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 Surplus Property Act of 1944, being Chapter 479, Public
• § 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 a seal, emblem, insignia, trade or brand n
• § 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 public record if that solicitation meets all
• § 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 on its container there appears the words “Made in U
• § 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 over the Internet, a prize or gift, with the intent to offer a sales
• § 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 in this state, inc
• § 17534 — Any person, firm, corporation, partnership or association or any employee or agent thereof who violates this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor.
• § 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 all other laws of this state.
• § 17535 — Obtaining Injunctive Relief Any person, corporation, firm, partnership, joint stock company, or any other association or organization which violates or proposes to violate this chapter may be enjoined
• § 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 ($6,000) for each violation.
• § 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 to exceed two thousand five hu
• § 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 Court of California, a state court of appeal, or the appellate
• § 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 misleading, including, but not limited to, the manner made unlawful in s
• § 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 an advertising plan or program, to offer any incenti
• § 17537.10 — (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 connection with the offering or performance
• § 17537.11 — (a) It is unlawful for any person to offer a coupon that is in any manner untrue or misleading.
• § 17537.12 — (a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the Truth in Music Advertising Act.
• § 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 products and
• § 17537.2 — The following, when used as part of an advertising plan or program defined in Section 17537.
• § 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 proof of purchase of a smokeles
• § 17537.4 — If the person making an offer subject to Section 17537 or to subdivision (a) of Section 17537.
• § 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 the following: (1) Make false claims of affiliation
• § 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 homestead filing service.
• § 17537.7 — Except as to communications described in paragraph (2) of subdivision (n) of Section 11713.
• § 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 homeowners’ exemption filing service.
• § 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 assessment reduction filing service.
• § 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 by telephone, the Internet or other electronic means of communicat
• § 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 subdivisions (a), (b), (c), and (d) of this section: (a) To i
• § 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 terminating the customer’s electr
• § 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 cause to be transmitted, a te
• § 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 of the following: (A) Transcr
• § 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 to promote,
• § 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 utilizes a post office box address, a private mailbox rece
• § 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 person accepting the check advises the consumer in writin
• § 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 an extension of consumer credit under an ope
• § 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 particular source,
• § 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 other as
• § 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 consideration may be solicited; that current meth
• § 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 and conspicuously disclose,
• § 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
• § 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.
• § 17539.3 — (a) Sections 17539.
• § 17539.35 — No person shall advertise, offer, or operate any contest, as defined in subdivision (e) of Section 17539.
• § 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 the printed text of that advertisemen
• § 17539.5 — (a) For purposes of this section and Sections 17539.
• § 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 Department of Justice as provided in this section wi
• § 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 in a recorded message or by a live operator of the 900 nu
• § 1754.5 — (a) A radiation safety course shall have the primary purpose of providing theory, laboratory, and clinical application in radiographic techniques.
• § 1755 — (a) A course in infection control is one that has as its main purpose providing theory and clinical application in infection control practices and principles where the protection of the public is its
• § 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 of this state.
• § 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 arranged, wholesale or retail , either of the fol
• § 17550.10 — “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 for that transportation or those travel serv
• § 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 amount required to be held in a trust account pursuant to Section 1
• § 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 by the seller of travel unless at the t
• § 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 a refund as provided by this section.
• § 17550.15 — (a) This section applies to a seller of travel as defined in Section 17550.
• § 17550.16 — (a) A seller of travel is exempt from the requirements of subdivisions (a) to (f), inclusive, of Section 17550.
• § 17550.17 — (a) This section does not apply to sellers of travel who are exempt from the requirements of Section 17550.
• § 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 or applications of the article which ca
• § 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 more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000), by imp
• § 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.
• § 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, joint venture, associ
• § 17550.20 — (a) (1) Not less than 10 days before doing business in this state, a seller of travel shall apply for registration with the office of the Attorney General by filing with the Consumer Protection Sectio
• § 17550.21 — Each filing pursuant to Section 17550.
• § 17550.22 — No registration application shall be accepted for filing if it is incomplete or contains false information.
• § 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 California, which does business with
• § 17550.24 — (a) The Attorney General or his or her delegate shall issue a separate registration number to each registrant whose registration is accepted.
• § 17550.25 — (a) All sellers of travel who are participants shall comply with Article 2.
• § 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 purchase
• § 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 arrangement that purp
• § 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 the same partnership, corporation, joint venture, associat
• § 17550.30 — (a) The Travel Seller Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury.
• § 17550.35 — “Restitution corporation” means the Travel Consumer Restitution Corporation.
• § 17550.36 — “Participant,” as used in this article, means a seller of travel, as defined in Section 17550.
• § 17550.37 — (a) “Person aggrieved,” as used in this article, means a passenger, as defined in Section 17550.
• § 17550.38 — (a) It is the purpose of the Travel Consumer Restitution Corporation to provide restitution to a person aggrieved, subject to the limitations set forth in this article.
• § 17550.39 — (a) Participants shall maintain a corporation under the Nonprofit Mutual Benefit Corporation Law (Part 3 (commencing with Section 7110) of Division 2 of Title 1 of the Corporations Code) operating und
• § 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 of Transportation or under the certification of
• § 17550.40 — Each participant is required to comply with the provisions of this article and shall abide by the rules and decisions of the Travel Consumer Restitution Corporation adopted in accordance with this art
• § 17550.41 — (a) The Board of Directors of the Travel Consumer Restitution Corporation shall be composed of six directors, as follows: (1) One public consumer representative member appointed by the Director of Con