Title BPC, California Bus. & Prof. Code

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, individuals or entities contracting with the department or any board within the department for the provision of services relating to the treatment and rehabilitation of licensees impaired by alcohol or dangerous drugs shall retain all records an…

The director may negotiate and execute for the department and for its component agencies, rental agreements for short-term hiring of space and furnishings for examination or meeting purposes. The director may, in his or her discretion, negotiate and execute contracts for that spa…

Expenses incurred by any board or on behalf of any board in any criminal prosecution or unprofessional conduct proceeding constitute proper charges against the funds of the board. (Added by Stats. 1937, Ch. 474.)

With the approval of the Director of Consumer Affairs, the boards and commissions comprising the department or subject to its jurisdiction may make refunds to applicants who are found ineligible to take the examinations or whose credentials are insufficient to entitle them to cer…

The members and the executive officer of each board, agency, bureau, division, or commission have power to administer oaths and affirmations in the performance of any business of the board, and to certify to official acts. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 1350.)

(a) (1) There is in the department the Division of Investigation. The division is in the charge of a person with the title of chief of the division. (2) Except as provided in Section 160, investigators who have the authority of peace officers, as specified in subdivision (a) of S…

(a) The chief and all investigators of the Division of Investigation of the department and all investigators of the Dental Board of California have the authority of peace officers while engaged in exercising the powers granted or performing the duties imposed upon them or the div…

(a) All civil service employees currently employed by the Board of Dental Examiners of the Department of Consumer Affairs, whose functions are transferred as a result of the act adding this section shall retain their positions, status, and rights pursuant to Section 19050.9 of th…

The department, or any board in the department, may, in accordance with the California Public Records Act (Division 10 (commencing with Section 7920.000) of Title 1 of the Government Code) and the Information Practices Act of 1977 (Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 1798) of Titl…

(a) The board of supervisors may in the exercise of its police powers, and for the purpose of regulation, as herein provided, and not otherwise, license any kind of business not prohibited by law, transacted and carried on within the limits of its jurisdiction, including all show…

(a) (1) A county that licenses businesses carried on within its jurisdiction shall accept a California driver’s license or identification number, an individual taxpayer identification number, or a municipal identification number in lieu of a social security number if the county o…

(a) When applying to a county for an initial business license, equivalent instrument, or permit, or business renewal thereof, a person who conducts a business operation that is a regulated industry, as defined in Section 13383.5 of the Water Code, shall demonstrate enrollment wit…

Notwithstanding Section 16100, no county or city and county shall require a regulatory license or impose a regulatory license fee with respect to cafe musicians. “Cafe musician,” for the purposes of this section, means any person playing a musical instrument in any place or estab…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 37101 of the Government Code, Section 7284 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, or Section 16000 of this code, no county or city and county shall require a regulatory license or impose a regulatory license fee with respect to the solicitation of donations…

The boards of supervisors in their respective counties may for the purpose of revenue license individuals acting as hawkers, itinerant peddlers or itinerant vendors, other than merchants having a fixed place of business in the county, their employees, and farmers selling farm pro…

Every soldier, sailor or marine of the United States who has received an honorable discharge or a release from active duty under honorable conditions from such service may hawk, peddle and vend any goods, wares or merchandise owned by him, except spirituous, malt, vinous or other…

No license fee may be collected from, nor any penalty for the nonpayment thereof enforced against, any commercial traveler whose business is limited to goods, wares and merchandise sold or dealt in at wholesale in this State. (Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 61.)

No license requiring a fee greater than 3 cents ($0.03) per head shall be imposed by the board of supervisors of any county on the business of raising, grazing, herding or pasturing sheep, nor shall any such license tax be applicable to or on account of lambs under eight months o…

Any license issued to a business pursuant to this chapter shall be revoked for violation of Section 24185 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to human cloning. (Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 821, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 2003.)

A county shall not include in the definition of gross receipts, for purposes of any local tax or fee imposed by the county on a cannabis retailer licensed under Division 10 (commencing with Section 26000), the amount of any cannabis excise tax imposed under Section 34011.2 of, or…

The certificate of the officer in charge of the records of any board in the department that any person was or was not on a specified date, or during a specified period of time, licensed, certified or registered under the provisions of law administered by the board, or that the li…

Except as otherwise expressly provided by law, the department and each board in the department shall charge a fee of two dollars ($2) for the certification of a copy of any record, document, or paper in its custody or for the certification of any document evidencing the content o…

Except as otherwise provided by law, the delinquency, penalty, or late fee for any licensee within the Department of Consumer Affairs shall be 50 percent of the renewal fee for such license in effect on the date of the renewal of the license, but not less than twenty-five dollars…

The form and content of any license, certificate, permit, or similar indicia of authority issued by any agency in the department, including any document evidencing renewal of a license, certificate, permit, or similar indicia of authority, shall be determined by the director afte…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no board, bureau, committee, commission, or program in the Department of Consumer Affairs shall submit to the Legislature any fiscal impact analysis relating to legislation pending before the Legislature until the analysis has been subm…

The director shall, by regulation, develop guidelines to prescribe components for mandatory continuing education programs administered by any board within the department. (a) The guidelines shall be developed to ensure that mandatory continuing education is used as a means to cre…

As used in this chapter: (a) “Coupon” includes certificates, cards, package labels, wrappers, can covers, bottle caps or other and similar devices, which entitle the person holding or delivering or surrendering them to have them exchanged for or redeemed in goods, wares, merchand…

It is unlawful for any person to issue coupons unless there shall be specified in or upon such coupons, specifically or by class, the person by whom or with whom such coupon is exchangeable or redeemable, and unless such person specified is either: (a) The person issuing such cou…

It is unlawful for any person to advertise a price that requires the buyer to send in a coupon to the manufacturer for a cash rebate, unless the price actually paid to the person selling the item is clearly and conspicuously advertised along with the final price with the coupon. …

Any person violating this chapter is for each offense guilty of a misdemeanor. (Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 64.)

(a) For the purposes of this chapter, except as provided in subdivision (b), and notwithstanding subdivision (v) of Section 22971, a “tobacco product” includes a product or device as defined in subdivision (d) of Section 22950.5. (b) This section does not apply to subdivision (b)…

(a) Commencing June 30, 2004, a retailer shall have in place and maintain a license to engage in the sale of cigarettes or tobacco products. A retailer that owns or controls more than one retail location shall obtain a separate license for each retail location, but may submit a s…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 22972 or Section 22973, the board may issue to a retailer a temporary license with a scheduled expiration date, as determined by the board, that occurs on or before September 30, 2004. (b) A temporary license issued pursuant to this section shall be au…

(a) An application for a retailer license, as defined in Section 22972, shall be filed in a form and manner prescribed by the department and shall include the following: (1) The name, address, and telephone number of the applicant. (2) The business name, address, and telephone nu…

(a) The board shall issue a license to a retailer upon receipt of a completed application and payment of the fees prescribed in Section 22973, unless any of the following apply: (1) The retailer, or if the retailer is not an individual, any person controlling the retailer, has pr…

The department shall, upon request, provide to the State Department of Public Health, the office of the Attorney General, a law enforcement agency, a local lead agency, and any agency authorized to enforce or administer state or local tobacco control laws, access to the departmen…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, an application for a retailer license, as defined in Section 22972, for the sale of a tobacco product, as defined in paragraph (1) of subdivision (d) of Section 22950.5, that is not subject to a tax imposed by the Cigarette and Tobacco Products …

(a) On or before December 1, 2027, and again on or before December 1, 2029, the Legislative Analyst shall prepare and submit a report to the Legislature on the tobacco retailer enforcement landscape, including enforcement of California’s flavor, youth access, taxation, and licens…

A retailer shall retain purchase invoices that meet the requirements set forth in Section 22978.4 for all cigarettes or tobacco products the retailer purchased for a period of four years. The records shall be kept at the retail location for at least one year after the purchase. I…

(a) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, upon discovery by the department or a law enforcement agency that a retailer possesses, stores, owns, or has made a retail sale of flavored tobacco products or tobacco product flavor enhancers in violation of Section 1…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, upon discovery by the board or a law enforcement agency that a retailer or any other person possesses, stores, owns, or has made a retail sale of an unstamped package of cigarettes, the board or the law enforcement agency …

The board shall revoke the license, pursuant to the provisions applicable to the revocation of a license as set forth in Section 30148 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, of any retailer or any person controlling the retailer that has: (a) Been convicted of a felony pursuant to Sec…

Any retailer who fails to display a license as required in Section 22972 shall, in addition to any other applicable penalty, be liable for a penalty of five hundred dollars ($500). (Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 890, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)

In addition to any other civil or criminal penalty provided by law, upon a finding that a retailer has violated any provision of this division, the board may take the following actions: (a) In the case of the first offense, the board may revoke or suspend the license or licenses …

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the board shall suspend or revoke the license of a retailer upon notification by the State Department of Public Health pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 22958, or pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (f) of Section 104559.5 of t…

Any person in possession of a stock of lawfully acquired alcoholic beverages following the revocation of, suspension of, voluntary surrender of, or failure to renew, the license may sell the stock, under supervision of the department in the manner as the department by rule provid…