No action shall be maintained to enforce any liability created under Section 31300 unless brought before the expiration of four years after the act or transaction constituting the violation, the expiration of one year after the discovery by the plaintiff of the fact constituting the violation, or 90 days after delivery to the franchisee of a written notice disclosing any violation of Section 31110 or 31200, which notice shall be approved as to form by the commissioner, whichever shall first expire.
Cal. Corp. Code § 31303
Civil Liability
Known as the Franchise Investment Law
The act spans §§ 31000–31528 (118 sections).
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case 112 Cal. App. 4th 810 - Pour Le Bebe, Inc. v. Guess? Inc. (2003)
Most recently applied in Stevens v. Jiffy Lube International, Inc. (February 2017)
Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1400.
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.