Bus. & Prof. Code, § 19971 · Article 14. Miscellaneous Provisions
Bus. & Prof. Code, § 19971
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
This act is an exercise of the police power of the state for the protection of the health, safety, and welfare of the people of the State of California, and shall be liberally construed to effectuate those purposes.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by renumbering Section 19957 by Stats. 2002, Ch. 738, Sec. 118. Effective January 1, 2003.
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=19971.
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- sha256 1edce3a1e4ddb0377f915daede7f9ba5320899a25246d68910c861de89d7ad89
- 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
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