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2025 California Code
Business and Professions Code - BPC
DIVISION 3 - PROFESSIONS AND VOCATIONS GENERALLY
CHAPTER 4 - Attorneys
ARTICLE 9.5 - Legal Advertising
Section 6158.
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CA Bus & Prof Code § 6158 (2025)
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6158. In advertising by electronic media, to comply with Sections 61571.1 and 6157.2, the message as a whole may not be false, misleading, or deceptive, and the message as a whole must be factually substantiated. The message means the effect in combination of the spoken word, sound, background, action, symbols, visual image, or any other technique employed to create the message. Factually substantiated means capable of verification by a credible source.
(Added by Stats. 1994, Ch. 711, Sec. 6. Effective January 1, 1995.)
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