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Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17024

Definitions

Known as the Unfair Practices Act

The act spans §§ 17000–17101 (53 sections).

Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 37 Cal. App. 4th 1517 - Tippett v. Terich (1995)

Most recently applied in Diva Limousine, Ltd. v. Uber Techs., Inc. (June 2019)

Amended by Stats. 1959, Ch. 1638.

How often courts cite this section

19771980199020002010201910
citing decisions per year

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.

“Article or product” includes any article, product, commodity, thing of value, service or output of a service trade.

Motion picture films when licensed for exhibition to motion picture houses are not articles or products under this chapter.

Nothing in this chapter applies:

(1) To any service, article or product for which rates are established under the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission of this State and sold or furnished by any public utility corporation, or installation and repair services rendered in connection with any services, articles or products.

(2) To any service, article or product sold or furnished by a publicly owned public utility and upon which the rates would have been established under the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission of this State if such service, article or product had been sold or furnished by a public utility corporation, or installation and repair services rendered in connection with any services, articles or products.

Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.