The Legislature declares that the purpose of this chapter is to safeguard the public against the creation or perpetuation of monopolies and to foster and encourage competition, by prohibiting unfair, dishonest, deceptive, destructive, fraudulent and discriminatory practices by which fair and honest competition is destroyed or prevented.
Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17001
General Provisions
Known as the Unfair Practices Act
The act spans §§ 17000–17101 (53 sections).
Applied in 18 court decisions — leading case William Inglis & Sons Baking Co. v. ITT Continental Baking Co. (1981)
Most recently applied in 782 F. Supp. 2d 522 - Rikos v. Procter & Gamble Co. (May 2011)
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.