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DIVISION 7. GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS 16000-18001›PART 2. PRESERVATION AND REGULATION OF COMPETITION 16600-17365›CHAPTER 4. Unfair Trade Practices 17000-17101›ARTICLE 3. Offenses Against the Chapter 17040-17051

§ 17045

California Business and Professions Code · 2020-11 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California

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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