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2019 California Code
Business and Professions Code - BPC
DIVISION 7 - GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS
PART 2 - PRESERVATION AND REGULATION OF COMPETITION
CHAPTER 1 - Contracts in Restraint of Trade
Section 16600.

Universal Citation:
CA Bus & Prof Code § 16600 (2019)
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16600.  

Except as provided in this chapter, every contract by which anyone is restrained from engaging in a lawful profession, trade, or business of any kind is to that extent void.

(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 526.)

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