SECTIONS 22175-22181 - California Statutes

BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE

SECTION 22175-22181

22175. The provisions of this article shall apply exclusively to
gold and to its alloys.

22176. As used in this article "quality mark" means any mark
indicating or purporting to indicate that any article is composed of
gold or of any of its alloys or indicating or purporting to indicate
the quality, fineness, quantity, weight or kind of gold or its alloys
in an article.

22177. A quality mark need not be applied to any article, but if a
quality mark is applied to any article it shall be applied in
accordance with the provisions of this article.

22178. A quality mark applied to any article shall indicate the
number of twenty-fourth parts by weight of pure gold or its alloy
contained in the article.

22179. The variation between the actual fineness of the gold or its
alloy contained in any article and that indicated by the quality
mark applied to such article shall not exceed the tolerances for
fineness prescribed for articles made of gold and its alloys which
are to be moved in interstate commerce by that act of the United
States Government entitled "An act forbidding the importation,
exportation or carriage in interstate commerce of falsely or
spuriously stamped articles of merchandise made of gold or silver or
their alloys, or for other purposes," approved June 13, 1906 (34
Stats. 260; 15 U.S.C. Secs. 294-300, inclusive).

22180. Any person who applies or causes any quality mark to be
applied to any article which is made in whole or in part of gold or
of any of its alloys shall also apply a trade-mark duly applied for
or registered to him under the laws of the United States or of this
State to such article.
If the person so applying such mark is the manufacturer of the
article and has sold or contracted to sell such article to a jobber,
wholesale or retail dealer regularly engaged in the business of
buying and selling similar articles, this section shall be deemed to
be complied with if a trade-mark duly registered under the laws of
the United States or of this State to such jobber, wholesale or
retail dealer is applied to such article.

22181. Any person or any officer, director, employee or agent of
any person who makes, sells or offers to sell or dispose of, or has
in his possession with intent to sell or dispose of, any article to
which is applied any quality mark which does not conform to all the
provisions of this article or from which is omitted any mark required
by the provisions of this article is guilty of a misdemeanor.