Sections
62 entriesSection 17530Prohibits persons and business entities from knowingly making or disseminating, with intent to mislead, an untrue factual statement about the extent, location,…Section 17530.1Prohibits recommending a person to a prospective trustor as trustee when the recommender knows or has reason to believe the proposed trustee…Section 17530.5Prohibits tax-return preparers and assistants from disclosing taxpayer information, including electronically obtained information, as a misdemeanor unless the taxpayer separately consents in…Section 17530.7Requires a non-funeral-director retail seller of caskets or burial containers to provide price lists and requested construction details, display prices and construction…Section 17531Prohibits advertising secondhand, used, defective, seconds, blemished, or manufacturer-rejected merchandise unless a conspicuous, direct, and unequivocal statement next to the merchandise name…Section 17531.1Requires packagers of children’s toys for retail sale to state clearly on the outside package when a toy is unassembled. For toys…Section 17531.3Requires a for-profit educational conference organization sending solicitation materials through a school to a K–12 student to package them for the student’s…Section 17531.5Prohibits advertising the sale of merchandise that is federal surplus material unless the advertisement conspicuously places, directly with the merchandise name and…Section 17531.6Defines picture tube as a cathode ray tube or CRT; rejuvenate and similar terms as specified internal picture-tube repair methods; seconds and…Section 17531.7Requires manufacturers, processors, and distributors selling television picture tubes to label each tube and container with the prescribed grade reflecting new and…Section 17531.8Prohibits anyone other than a retail purchaser for personal use and consumption from removing, defacing, covering, obliterating, mutilating, altering, or causing alteration…Section 17531.9Allows the Attorney General or any district attorney to obtain an injunction in superior court against violations of the two specified provisions,…Section 17532Prohibits willfully or knowingly, with intent to defraud, selling, exchanging, offering, or exposing coal of a specific name or kind under another…Section 17533Prohibits a newspaper or periodical proprietor or publisher, including one publishing over the Internet, from willfully and knowingly misrepresenting the publication’s circulation…Section 17533.5Prohibits sellers of federal surplus materials from using a government-connoting business name that falsely suggests an official United States relationship, that all…Section 17533.6Prohibits nongovernmental entities from using government, military-veteran, or service-organization symbols, names, or content that reasonably imply a connection, approval, or endorsement unless…Section 17533.6.5Allows a nongovernmental entity to solicit a fee for obtaining a public record only with a 24-point advertisement disclaimer, the agency’s copy…Section 17533.7Prohibits “Made in U.S.A.” or similar labels on merchandise substantially made outside the United States. Exempts U.S.-made goods with foreign parts totaling…Section 17533.8Prohibits offering a prize or gift, by any medium including the Internet, with intent to make a sales presentation unless that sales…Section 17533.9Prohibits advertising the sale of tear gas, tear gas devices, or tear gas weapons unless the advertisement conspicuously and unequivocally states with…Section 17533.10Prohibits advertising the sale of anabolic steroids unless the advertisement conspicuously and unequivocally states with the steroid name and description that possession…Section 17534Establishes that any person, firm, corporation, partnership, association, employee, or agent violating this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor. The misdemeanor consequence…Section 17534.5Establishes that remedies and penalties provided by this chapter are cumulative with one another and with remedies or penalties available under all…Section 17535Allows courts to enjoin actual or proposed chapter violations and issue orders, including receivership and restoration of money or property acquired through…Section 17535.5Sets a civil penalty of up to $6,000 for each intentional violation of an injunction issued under the referenced provision, treating each…Section 17536Sets a mandatory civil penalty of up to $2,500 for each violation of this chapter, recoverable by specified public attorneys, with the…Section 17536.5Requires anyone filing a brief or petition in California appellate proceedings involving the chapter to serve the Attorney General and originating-county district…Section 17537Prohibits misleading prize/gift offers, including handling above $3 or 80% of cost. Exempts a mail-order gift from prior-sales rule for a general…Section 17537.1Requires written, conspicuous disclosures before an incentive-induced visit, sales presentation, or sales-agent contact, including provider, purpose, odds, restrictions, deadlines, qualifications, and offer…Section 17537.2Prohibits deceptive incentive advertising, including payment-to-use requirements, misleading selection or odds claims, and false value descriptions. Allows travel certificates to require a…Section 17537.3Prohibits smokeless-tobacco promotions requiring proof of purchase unless marked unavailable to people under 21, with mail coupons requesting age verification; honoring mail…Section 17537.4Allows a recipient damaged by a violation of the specified prize or incentive-offer provisions to bring a civil action against the person…Section 17537.5Prohibits energy-conservation sellers, including Internet solicitors, from falsely claiming utility affiliation, falsely stating a purchase or installation is legally required, or misrepresenting…Section 17537.6Prohibits misleading statements by homestead filing services and requires a 12-point bold boxed disclosure on each page and at the start of…Section 17537.7Prohibits advertisements for motor-vehicle sales or leases from using invoice, dealer invoice, wholesale price, or similar dealer-cost terms, or advertising a selling…Section 17537.8Prohibits misleading statements by homeowners’ exemption filing services and requires a 12-point bold boxed disclosure on every advertisement page and at the…Section 17537.9Prohibits misleading claims by assessment-reduction filing services and requires the prescribed disclosure in at least 12-point bold type, at least two points…Section 17537.10Prohibits misleading statements in offering or performing a grant-deed-copy service, including government affiliation, government-like envelopes or names, recommendations, or fee deadlines. Requires…Section 17537.11Prohibits offering any coupon that is untrue or misleading and bars describing a coupon as free, a gift, a prize, or similar…Section 17537.12Prohibits advertising or conducting a live musical performance using a false or misleading affiliation with a recording group. Exempts performances using an…Section 17537.15Prohibits floral or ornamental vendors from misrepresenting business location through a local telephone number without the true city address or a misleading…Section 17538Requires remote/mail-order sellers accepting payment to ship, refund, or give delay/substitution notice within 30 days unless another conspicuous or shorter period applies;…Section 17538.3Exempts from the referenced provision transactions involving advertised specified delays, goods unavailable until a future date, later serial-delivery installments, nonpersonal telecommunications, listed…Section 17538.35Requires an email provider, unless law or contract permits otherwise, to give at least 30 days’ notice before permanently terminating an address,…Section 17538.41Prohibits any person, business entity, candidate, or political committee from sending text-message advertisements to numbers assigned to California residents, but exempts provider-directed…Section 17538.43Prohibits unsolicited fax advertisements when the sender or recipient is in California and requires identifying transmission information. Allows injunctions plus actual damages…Section 17538.45Prohibits registered users and other initiators from using an email service provider’s California equipment contrary to the provider’s unsolicited-advertising policy. Allows the…Section 17538.5Requires businesses using mailbox or answering-service addresses to disclose legal name and street address, subject to retail, licensed-service, and home-business exceptions; violations…Section 17538.6Prohibits a California business from requesting or requiring a postdated check unless it gives written notice that the check may be cashed…Section 17538.7Requires sellers advertising repayment terms under qualifying open-end credit plans to disclose cash price, downpayment, payment schedule, finance charge and annual percentage…Section 17538.8Requires advertisements offering free or discounted transportation tied to purchasing accommodations, or free or discounted accommodations tied to purchasing transportation, to disclose…Section 17538.9Requires prepaid calling-card and service advertisements, cards, packaging, and point-of-sale materials to disclose applicable limits, ancillary charges, value, policies, company information, and…Section 17539Requires the specified contest provisions to be interpreted to provide maximum disclosure and fair treatment to contest entrants. The Legislature finds that…Section 17539.1Prohibits contest and sweepstakes operators from deceptive practices, including concealing odds or prize facts, falsely claiming a winner unless a contest had…Section 17539.15Prohibits sweepstakes solicitation materials from falsely representing that a recipient has won, was specially selected, received special treatment, or faces urgency; an…Section 17539.2Requires contest operators to disclose each entry deadline, refund consideration when a contestant requests in writing within one year of payment and…Section 17539.3Exempts employee-only games promoting an employer’s product or service and specified in-person contests, performances, sporting events, or tournaments from the referenced provisions.…Section 17539.35Prohibits any person from advertising, offering, or operating a contest in which money, property, services, or another thing of value may be…Section 17539.4Requires advertisements primarily disseminated in California for loans secured by real property to disclose the applicable lending license and state regulator, or…Section 17539.5Prohibits specified practices used to encourage callers to use information-access services, including automatic outbound solicitations, undisclosed referrals or collect calls, false free-service…Section 17539.55Prohibits operating a sweepstakes through a 900 number unless the information provider registers with the Department of Justice within 10 days after…Section 17539.6Requires every broadcast or print advertisement or notice containing a 900 number to use the same language, whether written or spoken, as…