It is unlawful for any person engaged in business within this State to sell any article or product at less than the cost thereof to such vendor, or to give away any article or product, for the purpose of injuring competitors or destroying competition.
Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17043
Offenses Against the Chapter
Known as the Unfair Practices Act
The act spans §§ 17000–17101 (53 sections).
Applied in 39 court decisions — leading case 20 Cal. 4th 163 - Cel-Tech Communications, Inc. v. Los Angeles Cellular Telephone Co. (1999)
Most recently applied in Diva Limousine, Ltd. v. Uber Techs., Inc. (June 2019)
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.