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2016 California Code
Business and Professions Code - BPC
DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS
PART 2 - PRESERVATION AND REGULATION OF COMPETITION
CHAPTER 4 - Unfair Trade Practices
ARTICLE 3 - Offenses Against the Chapter
Section 17045.
CA Bus & Prof Code § 17045 (2016) What's This?
17045. The secret payment or allowance of rebates, refunds, commissions, or unearned discounts, whether in the form of money or otherwise, or secretly extending to certain purchasers special services or privileges not extended to all purchasers purchasing upon like terms and conditions, to the injury of a competitor and where such payment or allowance tends to destroy competition, is unlawful.
(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 526.)
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