Sections
29 entriesSection 17550Establishes only legislative findings and intent concerning seller-of-travel regulation, citing financial harm, industry significance, and the need for fair practices, safeguards, competition,…Section 17550.1Defines “seller of travel” to include persons arranging or advertising air or sea transportation and land or non-sea vessel transportation when the…Section 17550.2Defines “advertise,” for purposes of the travel provisions, as making any representation in the solicitation of air or sea transportation. The definition…Section 17550.3Defines passenger as a person for whom money or other consideration has been or will be given to another person or entity…Section 17550.4Defines an air carrier as a person transporter by air operating under either a certificate of convenience and necessity issued by the…Section 17550.5Defines “ticket or voucher” as a writing that is itself good and sufficient to obtain the entire air transportation, ocean transportation, or…Section 17550.6Defines officially appointed agent as an agent expressly and unreservedly appointed for a specified period in a written instrument executed by the…Section 17550.7Defines a participant in the Travel Consumer Restitution Fund as a registered seller of travel with its principal California place of business…Section 17550.8Defines “provider” for the seller-of-travel provisions as the person or entity that actually provides transportation or travel services. The term therefore applies…Section 17550.9Defines travel services broadly to include lodging, surface transportation, transfers, tours, meals, guides, baggage transfer, sightseeing, recreation, vehicle rental, travel certificates, registration…Section 17550.10Defines a travel certificate as a writing representing that its holder is entitled to air or sea transportation or travel services, a…Section 17550.11Defines adequate bond as an admitted-surety bond maintained by a seller of travel at no less than the required trust-account amount, covering…Section 17550.13Requires a seller of travel, before or when receiving payment, to provide written disclosures, including that payments for unprovided services will be…Section 17550.14Requires a seller of travel to provide purchased transportation or services or refund unprovided services by the earlier of 30 days after…Section 17550.15Requires sellers of travel to deposit 100 percent of passenger payments and provider refunds into a federally insured trust account, without requiring…Section 17550.16Exempts qualifying sellers of travel from specified trust-account requirements when they meet the listed forwarding, agency, ownership, retail, registration, or foreign-provider disclosure…Section 17550.17Requires nonexempt sellers of travel, after full payment, to deliver tickets or vouchers within 72 hours, meaning three business days; check payments…Section 17550.18Establishes severability, places on a seller of travel the burden of producing evidence of an exception in criminal cases and the burden…Section 17550.19Sets each article violation as a misdemeanor punishable by up to $10,000 and one year in county jail, plus civil penalties. Sets…Section 17550.195Requires the Attorney General immediately to suspend the registration of a seller of travel convicted of the specified felony offense. It also…Section 17550.20Requires sellers of travel to register with the Attorney General at least 10 days before California business, paying $100 per location plus…Section 17550.21Requires seller-of-travel filings to disclose business names and locations, organization, owners and principals, specified judgments or convictions, travel certificates, trust-account or bond…Section 17550.22Prohibits acceptance for filing of a registration application that is incomplete or contains false information. The filing authority must therefore reject an…Section 17550.23Requires the Travel Consumer Restitution Corporation to notify the Attorney General when a California-based seller of travel doing business with Californians complies…Section 17550.24Requires the Attorney General to issue each accepted seller-of-travel registrant a registration number, subject to suspension or revocation for material misrepresentation or…Section 17550.25Requires seller-of-travel participants to comply with the restitution article before sales. A nonparticipant serving Californians must disclose orally and in writing that…Section 17550.26Allows sale of a travel business discount program only when discounts are not generally public, benefits and limits are disclosed before payment,…Section 17550.27Allows registered sellers to sell travel discount programs charging no more than $150 annually for terms up to one year, with renewal…Section 17550.30Establishes the Travel Seller Fund in the State Treasury, directs article fines, penalties, fees, late fees, and specified violation proceeds into it,…