California Business and Professions Code

§ 17529

BPC § 17529 Effective Jan 1, 2004Div. 7 · Part 3 · Ch. 1 · Art. 1.8

Statute text

The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following:

(a)Roughly 40 percent of all e-mail traffic in the United States is comprised of unsolicited commercial e-mail advertisements (hereafter spam) and industry experts predict that by the end of 2003 half of all e-mail traffic will be comprised of spam.

(b)The increase in spam is not only an annoyance but is also an increasing drain on corporate budgets and possibly a threat to the continued usefulness of the most successful tool of the computer age.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 487, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.