2011 California Code
Business and Professions Code
DIVISION 3. PROFESSIONS AND VOCATIONS GENERALLY [5000 - 9998.8]
ARTICLE 10. Home Improvement Business
Section 7160


CA Bus & Prof Code § 7160 (through 2012 Leg Sess) What's This?

Any person who is induced to contract for a work of improvement, including but not limited to a home improvement, in reliance on false or fraudulent representations or false statements knowingly made, may sue and recover from such contractor or solicitor a penalty of five hundred dollars ($500), plus reasonable attorney s fees, in addition to any damages sustained by him by reason of such statements or representations made by the contractor or solicitor.

(Added by renumbering Section 7028.2 by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1138.)

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