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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17756
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17756
“Person” means any individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, association, or other organization.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17757
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17757
“Organization” means any partnership, corporation, limited liability company, or association.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17758
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17758
“Issue” includes use, distribute, give away, sell, furnish, and licensing that use, distribution, gift, sale or furnishing.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17759
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17759
“Merchant” includes retailer, person dealing in services, or person in a similar capacity.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17760
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17760
The provisions of this chapter do not apply to nonprofit merchant organizations that guarantee redemption of trading stamps that are exclusively issued and redeemed by that organization or its members and where all of those members have jointly and severally assumed liability for
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17761
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17761
It is unlawful for any person to issue any trading stamp unless the stamp has imprinted on it both of the following: (a) The name of the trading stamp company that is responsible for the redemption of the stamp. (b) The redeemable value of the stamp in cents, mills, or fraction o
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17762
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17762
Any trading stamp company shall redeem upon presentation any trading stamp that it has issued, either in merchandise, service, or cash, at the option of the rightful holder. However, if the trading stamp company only offers to redeem the trading stamp in cash, the rightful holder
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17763
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17763
It is unlawful for any person to willfully issue or redeem any trading stamp without the consent of the trading stamp company that issued the stamp.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17764
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17764
Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit any person from redeeming, pursuant to contract, any trading stamps issued on or before December 31, 1997.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17765
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17765
Any person who advertises the giving of trading stamps, or who gives trading stamps, with the sale of any merchandise or service, shall give those stamps, if the purchaser requests them, with the sale of all items of merchandise or service offered for sale at his or her place of
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17766
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17766
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as requiring the giving of trading stamps with any sale of merchandise or service when the giving of those stamps or any premium with the particular merchandise or service is specifically prohibited by law or regulation.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17767
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17767
If a trading stamp company fails to redeem any of its trading stamps, any rightful holder of those stamps may bring a civil action for damages within three years of the failure to redeem.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17768
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17768
Any merchant who has issued to his or her customers or other persons the trading stamps of any trading stamp company subject to this chapter, and who proposes to discontinue the issuance of the stamps of that company for any reason, shall post a notice in at least 18-point type a
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17769
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17769
No trading stamp company shall cease issuing trading stamps unless it gives written notice at least 90 days prior to that cessation to each merchant that has at any time within one year issued trading stamps that the company is obligated to redeem.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 1777
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 1777
While employed by or practicing in a primary care clinic or specialty clinic licensed pursuant to Section 1204 of the Health and Safety Code, in a primary care clinic exempt from licensure pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 1206 of the Health and Safety Code, or a clinic owne
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17770
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17770
Any person violating any provision of this chapter shall be liable for a civil penalty not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each violation, and any superior court of this state shall have jurisdiction in equity on the complaint of any interested person to restrain and
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17771
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17771
Any person who willfully violates any provision of this chapter shall upon conviction be fined not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000).
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17772
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17772
Trading stamps issued by a trading stamp company subject to this chapter are exempt from the Corporate Securities Law of 1968 (Division 1 (commencing with Section 25000) of Title 4 of the Corporations Code).
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17773
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17773
Nothing in this chapter, nor in this code, shall be construed to require that the cash or merchandise value of trading stamps be stated or set forth on any sign, statement, or other advertising media that either advertises or offers those stamps, or advertises or indicates the pr
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17800
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17800
For purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) “Early termination fee” means an additional fee charged to a consumer as a result of a consumer’s election to apply a term or clause included in the contract that authorizes a consumer to suspend m
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17810
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17810
(a) A seller that uses a fixed term installment contract entered into or modified on or after August 1, 2026, shall not charge a fee to a consumer who terminates the fixed term installment contract unless, at the time of entering the initial contract, the contract includes a clea
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17820
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17820
A seller that uses a fixed term installment contract entered into or modified on or after August 1, 2026, shall not charge an early termination fee or any similar fee in an amount greater than 30 percent of the total sum for which the consumer is obligated under the fixed term in
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17830
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17830
This chapter shall not be interpreted to prohibit a contract from requiring the return of a good if the fixed term installment contract is terminated.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17840
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17840
This chapter shall not be interpreted to prevent a buyer from paying the full remaining balance of a fixed term installment contract before its maturity.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17850
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 17850
(a) The provisions of this chapter do not apply to a fixed term installment contract that is regulated by state or federal law providing greater protections to consumers than those provided by this chapter, including, but not limited to, a prohibition on early termination fees or