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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17500
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17500
It is unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association, or any employee thereof with intent directly or indirectly to dispose of real or personal property or to perform services, professional or otherwise, or anything of any nature whatsoever or to induce the public to e
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17500.1
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17500.1
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no trade or professional association, or state agency, state board, or state commission within the Department of Consumer Affairs shall enact any rule, regulation, or code of professional ethics which shall restrict or prohibit advertis
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17500.3
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17500.3
(a) It is unlawful for any person to solicit a sale or order for sale of goods or services at the residence of a prospective buyer, in person or by means of telephone, without clearly, affirmatively and expressly revealing at the time the person initially contacts the prospective
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17500.5
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17500.5
(a) It is unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association to falsely represent by advertisement the quantity of any article so advertised that will be sold to any one customer on his demand in a single transaction, and willfully or negligently to fail to include in such
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17500.6
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17500.6
(a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Clear and conspicuous” means in a manner that clearly calls attention to the language, such as in larger type than the surrounding text, or in contrasting type, font, or color to the surrounding text of the s
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17501
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17501
For the purpose of this article the worth or value of any thing advertised is the prevailing market price, wholesale if the offer is at wholesale, retail if the offer is at retail, at the time of publication of such advertisement in the locality wherein the advertisement is publi
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17502
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17502
This article does not apply to any visual or sound radio broadcasting station, to any internet service provider or commercial online service, or to any publisher of a newspaper, magazine, or other publication, who broadcasts or publishes, including over the Internet, an advertise
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17504
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17504
(a) Any person, partnership, corporation, firm, joint stock company, association, or organization engaged in business in this state as a retail seller who sells any consumer good or service which is sold only in multiple units and which is advertised by price shall advertise thos
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17505
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17505
No person shall state, in an advertisement of his goods, that he is a producer, manufacturer, processor, wholesaler, or importer, or that he owns or controls a factory or other source of supply of goods, when such is not the fact, and no person shall in any other manner misrepres
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17505.2
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17505.2
(a) It is unlawful for a person to represent himself or herself as a recreation therapist, to represent the services he or she performs as recreation therapy, or to use terms set forth in subdivision (c) in connection with his or her services, name, or place of business, unless h
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17506
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17506
As used in this chapter, “person” includes any individual, partnership, firm, association, or corporation.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17506.5
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17506.5
As used in this chapter: (a) “Board within the Department of Consumer Affairs” includes any commission, bureau, division, or other similarly constituted agency within the Department of Consumer Affairs. (b) “Local consumer affairs agency” means and includes any city or county bod
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17507
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17507
It is unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association to make an advertising claim or representation pertaining to more than one article of merchandise or type of service, within the same class of merchandise or service, if any price set forth in such claim or represent
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17508
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17508
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person doing business in California and advertising to consumers in California to make any false or misleading advertising claim, including claims that (1) purport to be based on factual, objective, or clinical evidence, (2) compare the product’s
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17509
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17509
(a) Any advertisement, including any advertisement over the Internet, soliciting the purchase or lease of a product or service, or any combination thereof, that requires, as a condition of sale, the purchase or lease of a different product or service, or any combination thereof,
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 1751
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 1751
At least once every seven years, the board shall review the allowable duties for dental assistants, registered dental assistants, registered dental assistants in extended functions, dental sedation assistant permitholders, and orthodontic assistant permitholders, the supervision
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17510
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17510
(a) The Legislature finds that there exists in the area of solicitations and sales solicitations for charitable purposes a condition which has worked fraud, deceit and imposition upon the people of the state which existing legal remedies are inadequate to correct. Many solicitati
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17510.1
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17510.1
As used in this article, “sale” shall include a gift made with the hope or expectation of monetary compensation.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17510.2
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17510.2
(a) As used in this article, “solicitation for charitable purposes,” means any request, plea, entreaty, demand, or invitation, or attempt thereof, to give money or property, in connection with which any of the following applies: (1) Any appeal is made for charitable purposes. (2)
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17510.25
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17510.25
(a) A charity, as defined in subdivision (e), may engage in a solicitation for charitable purposes that involves persons standing in a public roadway soliciting contributions from passing motorists, if both of the following requirements are met: (1) The persons to be engaged in t
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17510.3
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17510.3
(a) Prior to any solicitation or sales solicitation for charitable purposes, the solicitor or seller shall exhibit to the prospective donor or purchaser a card entitled “Solicitation or Sale for Charitable Purposes Card.” The card shall be signed and dated under penalty of perjur
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17510.4
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17510.4
If the initial solicitation or sales solicitation is made by radio, television, letter, telephone, or any other means not involving direct personal contact with the person solicited, including over the Internet, this solicitation shall clearly disclose the information required by
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17510.5
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17510.5
(a) The financial records of a soliciting organization shall be maintained on the basis of generally accepted accounting principles as defined by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Governmental Accounting Standards Board, or the Financial Accounting Stand
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17510.6
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17510.6
The provisions of this article shall not apply to solicitations, sales, offers, or attempts to sell within the membership of a charitable organization or upon its regular occupied premises, nor shall it apply to funds raised as authorized by Section 326.5 of the Penal Code.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17510.7
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17510.7
Compliance with any city or county ordinance which provides for disclosure of information relating to solicitations or sales solicitations for charitable purposes substantially similar to and no less than the disclosure requirements of this article shall be deemed to satisfy the