California Codes, Business and Professions Code - BPC, Division 3 — Professions and Vocations Generally, Chapter 20.3 — Automotive Repair, Article 10.5 — Auto Body Repair, Section 9889.50
The Legislature finds the following:
(1) Thousands of California automobile owners each year require repair of their vehicles as a result of collision or other damage.
(2) California automobile owners are suffering direct and indirect harm through unsafe, improper, incompetent, and fraudulent auto body repairs.
(3) There is a lack of proper training and equipment that auto body repair shops need to meet the demands of the highly evolved and sophisticated automobile manufacturing industry.
(4) California has no minimum standards or requirements for auto body repair shops.
(5) Existing laws currently regulating the auto body industry could be strengthened.
(6) There is a compelling need to increase competency and standards for the auto body repair industry.
Notes
Establishes legislative findings only, not an operative rule, stating that thousands of California automobile owners annually need collision or other damage repairs and suffer harm from unsafe, improper, incompetent, or fraudulent repairs. States that shops may lack needed training and equipment, California has no minimum auto-body-shop standards, existing laws could be strengthened, and greater industry competency and standards are needed.
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