Bus. & Prof. Code, § 17200 · Chapter 5. Enforcement
Bus. & Prof. Code, § 17200
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
As used in this chapter, unfair competition shall mean and include any unlawful, unfair or fraudulent business act or practice and unfair, deceptive, untrue or misleading advertising and any act prohibited by Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 17500) of Part 3 of Division 7 of the Business and Professions Code.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 430, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1993.
Source of truth
- Edition
- As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
- Official file
- https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=BPC§ionNum=17200.
- Text hash
- sha256 0e4e6022d3cf4fea38f5070cc2956e3bd93e146e80f342556ffffd2aa2d3dfe1
- Composed by
- compose_ca.py 2026-10-22: the Legislative Counsel's CAML content files read by a tokenizer (caml_readers.reader_a); an independent xml.etree reading (caml_readers.reader_b) agrees on every section
This section cites
Provisions in this library that the text above cites, as it prints each citation. A range cited as “ss. 61.13-61.16” links its first and last provisions.
Cited by 29 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Bus. & Prof. Code, § 17200. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Business and Professions Code
Civil Code
- Civ. Code, § 1747.94Printed as Section 17200 of the Business and Professions Code
- Civ. Code, § 1749.63Printed as Section 17200 of the Business and Professions Code
- Civ. Code, § 1789.32Printed as Section 17200 of the Business and Professions Code
- Civ. Code, § 1797.86Printed as Section 17200 of the Business and Professions Code
- Civ. Code, § 2945.45Printed as Section 17200 or 17500 of the Business and Professions Code
- Civ. Code, § 3273.51Printed as Section 17200 of the Business and Professions Code
Financial Code
- Fin. Code, § 12104Printed as Section 17200 or 17500 of the Business and Professions Code
- Fin. Code, § 22161Printed as Section 17200 of the Business and Professions Code
- Fin. Code, § 22604Printed as Section 17200 of the Business and Professions Code
- Fin. Code, § 50204Printed as Section 17200 or 17500 of the Business and Professions Code
- Fin. Code, § 50510Printed as Section 17200 or 17500 of the Business and Professions Code
- Fin. Code, § 90009Printed as Section 17200 of the Business and Professions Code
Food and Agricultural Code
Government Code
Health and Safety Code
- Health & Saf. Code, § 1349.2Printed as Section 17200 of the Business and Professions Code
- Health & Saf. Code, § 1385.0018Printed as Section 17200 of the Business and Professions Code
- Health & Saf. Code, § 1386Printed as Section 17200 of the Business and Professions Code
- Health & Saf. Code, § 1388Printed as Section 17200 of the Business and Professions Code
- Health & Saf. Code, § 1793.5Printed as Section 17200 of the Business and Professions Code
- Health & Saf. Code, § 25993Printed as Section 17200 of the Business and Professions Code
Revenue and Taxation Code
Procedural information only. Not legal advice and not a substitute for the advice of an attorney. Confirm the current text with the official publisher before relying on it.