“County” includes city and county.
Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Known as the Business and Professions Code
The act spans §§ 1–40 (43 sections).
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Audio Fidelity, Inc. v. High Fidelity Recordings, Inc. (1960)
Most recently applied in Daniel Berman v. Freedom Financial Network LLC (April 2022)
Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 399.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.