This chapter may be cited as the Unfair Practices Act.
Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17000
General Provisions
Known as the Unfair Practices Act
The act spans §§ 17000–17101 (53 sections).
Applied in 82 court decisions — leading case 20 Cal. 4th 163 - Cel-Tech Communications, Inc. v. Los Angeles Cellular Telephone Co. (1999)
Most recently applied in Gerace v. Biotheranostics, Inc. (February 2022)
Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 526.
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.