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2011 California Code
Business and Professions Code
DIVISION 3. PROFESSIONS AND VOCATIONS GENERALLY [5000 - 9998.8]
ARTICLE 2. Application of Chapter
Section 7027.4


CA Bus & Prof Code § 7027.4 (through 2012 Leg Sess) What's This?

(a) It is a cause for discipline for any contractor to advertise that he or she is insured or has insurance without identifying in the advertisement the type of insurance, including, for example, commercial general liability insurance or workers compensation insurance that is carried by the contractor. The contractor may abbreviate the title of the type of insurance.

(b) It is cause for discipline for a contractor to advertise that he or she is bonded if the reference is to a contractor s license bond required pursuant to Section 7071.6 or to a disciplinary bond required pursuant to Section 7071.8.

(c) Advertise, as used in this section, includes, but is not limited to, the issuance of any card, sign, or device to any person, the causing, permitting, or allowing of any sign or marking on or in any building or structure or business vehicle or in any newspaper, magazine, or by airwave or any electronic transmission, or in any directory under a listing for construction or work of improvement covered by this chapter, for the direct or indirect purpose of performing or offering to perform services that require a contractor s license.

(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 607, Sec. 31. Effective January 1, 2004.)

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