California Business and Professions Code

§ 22128

BPC § 22128Div. 8 · Ch. 12 · Art. 2

Statute text

No quality mark shall be applied to any article except in accordance with the following provisions of this section:

(a)An article consisting of at least 985/1000ths parts of platinum, iridium, palladium, ruthenium, rhodium, or osmium, where solder is not used and at least 950/1000ths parts of said metal or metals where solder is used, may be marked “platinum”; provided, that the total of the aforementioned metals other than pure platinum shall amount to no more than 50/1000ths parts of the contents of the entire article.

(b)An article consisting of at least 985/1000ths parts of platinum, iridium, palladium, ruthenium, or osmium, where solder is not used and at least 950/1000ths parts of the said metal or metals where solder is used; and provided further, that at least 750/1000ths parts of said article are pure platinum, may be marked “platinum”; provided immediately preceding the mark “platinum” there is marked the name or abbreviation of either iridium, palladium, ruthenium, rhodium, or osmium, whichever of said metals predominates; and provided further, that such predominating other metal must be more than 50/1000ths parts of the entire article.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 316.