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Cal. Business and Professions Code § 17538.3

Cal. Business and Professions Code § 17538.3

California · California Business and Professions Code · Status: effective · Effective 2003-01-01

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Cal. Business and Professions Code § 17538.3, California, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-25, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/778335
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The provisions of Section 17538 do not apply to any of the following, except that subdivisions (d) and (e) of Section 17538 shall apply to subdivisions (a), (b), (c), and (d) of this section: (a) To instances in which all advertising for goods or services contains a notice as to each item or service offered, which, in the case of printed advertising, shall be in a type size at least as large as that indicating the price, that a delay may be expected of a specified period. In those cases, one of the events described in Section 17538 must occur no later than the expiration of the period specified in the advertisement. (b) To goods or services, such as quarterly magazines, which by their nature are not ready for use or consumption until a future date and for that reason cannot be stocked at the time of order. (c) To installments other than the first of goods, such as magazine subscriptions, ordered for serial delivery. (d) To any telecommunications goods and services sold by a telecommunications company, except those telecommunications goods and services purchased for use primarily for personal, family, or household purposes. (e) To financial services offered in the ordinary course of business by a supervised bank, national banking association, bank holding company, a state or federal savings and loan association, a state or federal credit union, or a subsidiary or affiliate thereof, or an authorized industrial loan company, a licensed personal property broker, a licensed consumer finance lender, a licensed commercial finance lender, or a person licensed pursuant to Division 4 (commencing with Section 10000). (f) To any delay in delivery of goods or services caused by the United States Postal Service, an act of God, or a labor strike by the vendor’s employees.