California CodesBusiness and Professions Code - BPCDivision 6 — Business RightsChapter 3 — Trade Names and DesignationsArticle 1 — Trade NamesSection 14404

Every person who wilfully defaces, obliterates, or otherwise removes, destroys, or conceals the trade name of another, printed, branded, stamped, engraved, etched, blown, impressed, or otherwise attached to, or produced upon any cask, keg, bottle, vessel, siphon, can, case, or other package, for the purpose of selling or trafficking in such cask, keg, bottle, vessel, siphon, can, case, or other package, or refilling such cask, keg, bottle, vessel, siphon, can, case, or other package, with intent to defraud the owner thereof, without the consent of the owner, or unless the same has been purchased from the owner, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Notes

Prohibits willfully removing, destroying, or concealing another’s trade name from specified containers or packages for sale, trafficking, or refilling, with intent to defraud the owner. The prohibition does not apply when the owner consents or when the container or package has been purchased from the owner; violation is a misdemeanor.

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