The secret payment or allowance of rebates, refunds, commissions, or unearned discounts, whether in the form of money or otherwise, or secretly extending to certain purchasers special services or privileges not extended to all purchasers purchasing upon like terms and conditions, to the injury of a competitor and where such payment or allowance tends to destroy competition, is unlawful.
Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17045
Offenses Against the Chapter
Known as the Unfair Practices Act
The act spans §§ 17000–17101 (53 sections).
Applied in 17 court decisions — leading case Chicago Title Insurance v. Great Western Financial Corp. (1968)
Most recently applied in Cox Auto., Inc. v. CDK Global, LLC (In re Dealer Mgmt. Sys. Antitrust Litig.) (January 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.