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2025 California Code
Business and Professions Code - BPC
DIVISION 6 - BUSINESS RIGHTS
CHAPTER 3 - Trade Names and Designations
ARTICLE 1 - Trade Names
Section 14403.
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CA Bus & Prof Code § 14403 (2025)
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14403. Every person who has in his possession, or who uses any cask, bottle, vessel, case, cover, label, brand, or other thing bearing, or having in any way connected with it, the trade name of another, for the purpose of disposing of any article other than that which such cask, bottle, vessel, case, cover, label, brand or other thing, originally contained, or is connected with by the owner of the trade name, with intent to deceive or defraud, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 59.)
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