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2012 California Codes
BPC - Business and Professions Code
DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS [16000 - 18001]
PART 2 - PRESERVATION AND REGULATION OF COMPETITION
CHAPTER 1 - Contracts in Restraint of Trade
Section 16600


CA Bus & Prof Code § 16600 (through 2013 Leg Sess) What's This?
  

Except as provided in this chapter, every contract by which anyone is restrained from engaging in a lawful profession, trade, or business of any kind is to that extent void.

(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 526.)

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