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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17538.35
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17538.35
(a) Unless otherwise permitted by law or contract, any provider of electronic mail service shall provide each customer with notice at least 30 days before permanently terminating the customer’s electronic mail address. (b) No contract for electronic mail service may permit termin
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17538.41
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17538.41
(a) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (b), (c), (d), or (e), no person, entity conducting business, candidate, or political committee in this state shall transmit, or cause to be transmitted, a text message advertisement to a mobile telephony services handset, pager, or two-w
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17538.43
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17538.43
(a) As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) “Telephone facsimile machine” means equipment that has the capacity to do either or both of the following: (A) Transcribe text or images, or both, from paper into an electronic signal and to transmi
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17538.45
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17538.45
(a) For purposes of this section, the following words have the following meanings: (1) “Electronic mail advertisement” means any electronic mail message, the principal purpose of which is to promote, directly or indirectly, the sale or other distribution of goods or services to t
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17538.5
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17538.5
(a) It is unlawful in the sale or offering for sale of consumer goods or services for any person conducting, any business in this state which utilizes a post office box address, a private mailbox receiving service, or a street address representing a site used for the receipt or d
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17538.6
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17538.6
(a) It is unlawful for any person conducting business in this state to require or request a consumer to issue a postdated check unless (1) the person accepting the check advises the consumer in writing that the check may be cashed immediately, notwithstanding the postdating, unle
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17538.7
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17538.7
(a) It is unlawful for a seller to advertise any payment, number of payments, or period of repayment for any goods, property, or services purchased through an extension of consumer credit under an open-end credit plan accepted for purchases by more than one seller unless the sell
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17538.8
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17538.8
Any advertisement that offers free or discounted transportation or certificates to obtain transportation and that requires the consumer to purchase accommodations through or from a particular source, or any advertisement that offers free or discounted accommodations or certificat
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17538.9
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17538.9
(a) For the purposes of this section: (1) “Ancillary charges” means all surcharges, taxes, fees, connection charges, maintenance fees, monthly or other periodic fees, per-call access fees, or other assessments or charges of any kind, however denominated, that may be imposed in co
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17539
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17539
The Legislature finds that there is a compelling need for more complete disclosure of rules and operation of contests in which money or other valuable consideration may be solicited; that current methods of disclosure are inadequate and create misunderstandings as to the true req
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17539.1
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17539.1
(a) The following unfair acts or practices undertaken by, or omissions of, any person in the operation of any contest or sweepstakes are prohibited: (1) Failing to clearly and conspicuously disclose, at the time of the initial contest solicitation, at the time of each precontest
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17539.15
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17539.15
(a) Solicitation materials containing sweepstakes entry materials or solicitation materials selling information regarding sweepstakes shall not represent, taking into account the context in which the representation is made, including, without limitation, emphasis, print, size, co
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17539.2
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17539.2
Every person who conducts any contest shall: (a) Clearly and conspicuously disclose on each entry blank the deadline for submission of that entry. (b) Refund all money or other consideration to contestants requesting such refund in writing within one year of payment and who are u
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17539.3
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17539.3
(a) Sections 17539.1 and 17539.2 do not apply to a game conducted to promote the sale of an employer’s product or service by his or her employees, when those employees are the sole eligible participants. (b) As used in Sections 17539.1 and 17539.2, “person” includes a firm, corpo
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17539.35
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17539.35
No person shall advertise, offer, or operate any contest, as defined in subdivision (e) of Section 17539.3, in which any prize, including any money, property, service, or other matter of value, may be awarded or transferred if the opportunity to win that prize is conditioned on a
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17539.4
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17539.4
No person shall place an advertisement disseminated primarily in this state for a loan which utilizes real property as collateral unless there is disclosed within the printed text of that advertisement, or the oral text in the case of a radio or television advertisement, the lice
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17539.5
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17539.5
(a) For purposes of this section and Sections 17539.55 and 17539.6: (1) “Broadcast” means the utilization of radio, television, home videos, movie screens, telephones, or other medium, including the Internet, that does not automatically provide the prospective consumer with a pri
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17539.55
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17539.55
(a) It shall be unlawful to operate a sweepstakes in this state through the use of a 900 number, unless the information provider registers with the Department of Justice as provided in this section within 10 days after causing any advertisement for the sweepstakes to be directed
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17539.6
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17539.6
Any broadcast or print advertisement or notice that contains a 900 number shall be written or spoken in the same language as the language used in a recorded message or by a live operator of the 900 number call.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 1754.5
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 1754.5
(a) A radiation safety course shall have the primary purpose of providing theory, laboratory, and clinical application in radiographic techniques. The board shall approve only those courses that adhere to the minimum requirements of this section. (b) A radiation safety course pro
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 1755
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 1755
(a) A course in infection control is one that has as its main purpose providing theory and clinical application in infection control practices and principles where the protection of the public is its primary focus. (b) An unlicensed dental assistant not enrolled in a board-approv
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17550
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17550
(a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) Certain advertising, sales, and business practices of sellers of travel have worked financial hardship upon the people of this state. (2) The travel business has a significant impact upon the economy and well-being
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17550.1
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17550.1
(a) “Seller of travel” means a person who sells, provides, furnishes, contracts for, arranges, or advertises that he or she can or may arrange, or has arranged, wholesale or retail , either of the following: (1) Air or sea transportation either separately or in conjunction with o
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17550.10
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17550.10
“Travel certificate” means a writing that represents the holder is entitled to air or sea transportation or travel services, to a discount or reduced price for that transportation or those travel services, or to purchase that transportation or those travel services from a specifi
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17550.11
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17550.11
(a) “Adequate bond” means a bond executed by an admitted surety insurer in an amount at all times no less than at least equal to the amount required to be held in a trust account pursuant to Section 17550.15 by any seller of travel in conjunction with such transportation, for the