California Codes, Civil Code - CIV, Division 3 — Obligations, Part 4 — Obligations Arising from Particular Transactions, Title 1.6C — Fair Debt Collection Practices, Article 2 — Debt Collector Responsibilities, Section 1788.17

Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, every debt collector collecting or attempting to collect a consumer debt shall comply with the provisions of Sections 1692b to 1692j, inclusive, of, and shall be subject to the remedies in Section 1692k of, Title 15 of the United States Code. However, subsection (11) of Section 1692e and Section 1692g shall not apply to any person specified in paragraphs (A) and (B) of subsection (6) of Section 1692a of Title 15 of the United States Code or that person’s principal. The references to federal codes in this section refer to those codes as they read January 1, 2001.

Notes

Requires every collector collecting or attempting to collect consumer debt to comply with specified federal debt-collection provisions and subjects the collector to specified federal remedies. Two identified federal requirements do not apply to the specified categories of persons or their principals, and the federal-code references are fixed to the versions in effect January 1, 2001.

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