Bill Text: CA AB2313 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Metal theft and related recycling crimes.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-08-26 - Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Anderson. [AB2313 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB2313-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2313	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Nestande and Olsen
   (Coauthor: Assembly Member Gray)

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to amend Section 17500 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to business.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2313, as introduced, Nestande. False advertising.
   Existing law makes it a crime for a person, corporation or
association, or any employee of a corporation or association, to
engage in advertising practices conducted by specified means of
dissemination or publication, where a statement is made or
disseminated that is untrue or misleading, and which by the exercise
of reasonable care should be known to be untrue or misleading.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these
provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 17500 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   17500.  It is unlawful for  any   a 
person, firm, corporation or association, or  any 
 an  employee thereof with intent directly or indirectly to
dispose of real or personal property or to perform services,
professional or otherwise, or anything of any nature whatsoever or to
induce the public to enter into  any   an 
obligation relating thereto, to make or disseminate or cause to be
made or disseminated before the public in this state, or to make or
disseminate or cause to be made or disseminated from this state
before the public in any state, in  any   a
 newspaper or other publication, or  any  
an  advertising device, or by public outcry or proclamation, or
in any other manner or means  whatever  , including
over the Internet,  any   a  statement,
concerning that real or personal property or those services,
professional or otherwise, or concerning any circumstance or matter
of fact connected with the proposed performance or disposition
thereof,  which   tha   t  is
untrue or misleading, and  which   that  is
known, or  which by the exercise of reasonable care
 should be known,  by the exercise of reasonable care,
 to be untrue or misleading, or for any person, firm, or
corporation to so make or disseminate or cause to be so made or
disseminated any such statement as part of a plan or scheme with the
intent not to sell that personal property or those services,
professional or otherwise, so advertised at the price stated therein,
or as so advertised. Any violation of the provisions of this section
is a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not
exceeding six months, or by a fine not exceeding two thousand five
hundred dollars ($2,500), or by both that imprisonment and fine.