2005 California Business and Professions Code Sections 14480-14491 Article 4. Laundry Supply Designations

14480.  As used in this article:
   (a) "Registrant" means any person who files and publishes a name,
mark or device under this article.
   (b) "Supplies" means supplies bearing a name, mark or device filed
and published under this article.
14481.  Any person engaged in the business of supplying clean
laundered garments, towels, table linen or other articles, the
property of the supplier, in a regular service, periodically
exchanging clean articles for soiled for a fixed compensation, may
adopt and use a name or other mark or device woven, impressed or
produced thereon as an indicium of ownership, and may register the
name, mark or device by filing and publishing it under this article.
14482.  In order to register a name, mark or device under this
article, the supplier shall do all of the following:
   (a) File in the office of the Secretary of State a description of
the names, marks, or devices so used.
   (b) Cause the description of the name, mark or device to be
printed once a week for three successive weeks in a newspaper
published in the county in which the principal place of business of
the supplier is located.
14483.  The registrant shall pay to the Secretary of State for
filing each laundry supply designation described and for issuing a
certificate of filing a fee as set forth in subdivision (e) of
Section 12193 of the Government Code.
14484.  It is unlawful for any persons except a person named in
subdivision (a) to do any of the acts named in subdivision (b):
   (a) Persons excepted:
   (1) The registrant.
   (2) A person who has the written consent of the registrant.
   (3) A person who has purchased the supplies from the registrant.
   (b) Prohibited acts:
   (1) Selling, buying, renting, giving, taking or otherwise
trafficking in any supplies bearing a name, mark or device filed and
published under this article.
   (2) Obliterating or otherwise covering up, concealing or removing
a name, mark or device filed and published under this article, from
such supplies.
14485.  The acceptance by the registrant of any sum of money as a
deposit to secure the safekeeping and return of the supplies does not
constitute a sale of the supplies either optional or otherwise, in
any proceeding under this article.
14486.  The use by any person, other than the registrant of any
supplies without the written consent provided in this article or the
possession of supplies so marked by any junk dealer or dealer of
secondhand articles is presumptive evidence of unlawful use of or
traffic in such supplies.
14487.  Any person or any member of any firm, corporation or
association acquiring supplies by purchase or other lawful means and
having the written consent provided for in this article, is not
required again to file and publish the description but shall, as to
supplies described in the written consent, acquire as part of the
purchase all such rights and benefits as the vendor has under this
article.
14488.  It is the duty of every person who finds or receives in the
regular course of business or in any other manner, any supplies to
make diligent effort to find the owner and restore or return the
supplies.
14489.  Whenever the registrant or any member of any corporation or
association which is the registrant takes an oath before any
magistrate that he has reason to believe and does believe that any
supplies are being unlawfully used, sold or secreted in any place,
the magistrate shall issue a search warrant to discover and obtain
the supplies and may also bring before him the person in whose
possession the articles are found.
14490.  If the magistrate finds that any person brought before him
has been guilty of a violation of this article he shall impose the
punishment prescribed in this article and also award the possession
of the property taken upon the search warrant to the owner.
14491.  The violation of any of the provisions of this article is a
misdemeanor, except that if the violation consists of unlawfully
using, selling, or secreting in any place supplies of a value
exceeding four hundred dollars ($400), the violation is a felony.