2016 California Code
Business and Professions Code - BPC
DIVISION 1 - DEPARTMENT OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS
CHAPTER 4 - Consumer Affairs
ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions and Definitions
Section 302.
302. As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings:
(a) Department means the Department of Consumer Affairs.
(b) Director means the Director of the Department of Consumer Affairs.
(c) Consumer means any individual who seeks or acquires, by purchase or lease, any goods, services, money, or credit for personal, family, or household purposes.
(d) Person means an individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, association, or other group, however organized.
(e) Individual does not include a partnership, corporation, association, or other group, however organized.
(f) Division means the Division of Consumer Services.
(g) Interests of consumers is limited to the cost, quality, purity, safety, durability, performance, effectiveness, dependability, availability, and adequacy of choice of goods and services offered or furnished to consumers and the adequacy and accuracy of information relating to consumer goods, services, money, or credit (including labeling, packaging, and advertising of contents, qualities, and terms of sales).
(Amended by Stats. 1994, Ch. 1010, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1995.)
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