SECTIONS 9800-9806 - California Statutes

BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE

SECTION 9800-9806

9800. This chapter of the Business and Professions Code constitutes
the chapter on electronic and appliance repair dealers. It may be
cited as the Electronic and Appliance Repair Dealer Registration Law.

9801. The following terms as used in this chapter have the meaning
expressed in this section:
(a) "Person" includes a firm, partnership, association, limited
liability company, or corporation.
(b) "Department" means the Department of Consumer Affairs.
(c) "Director" means the Director of Consumer Affairs.
(d) "Bureau" means the Bureau of Electronic and Appliance Repair,
Home Furnishings, and Thermal Insulation.
(e) "Chief" means the Chief of the Bureau of Electronic and
Appliance Repair, Home Furnishings, and Thermal Insulation.
(f) "Service dealer" means a person who, for compensation, engages
in, or holds himself or herself out to the public as offering
services in the business of:
(1) Repairing, servicing, or maintaining an electronic set
normally used or sold for personal, family, household, or home office
use.
(2) Installing, repairing, servicing, or maintaining equipment or
a burglar alarm system for use in private motor vehicles.
(3) Installing, repairing, servicing, or maintaining television or
radio receiver antennas, rotators, and accessories or direct
satellite signal receiving equipment located on or adjacent to a
residence and not involving a function that is subject to and
regulated under the provisions of Chapter 9 (commencing with Section
7000).
(4) Repairing, servicing, or maintaining major appliances.
(g) "Equipment" for the purposes of this chapter means an
electronic set, appliance, antenna, rotator, and accessories.
(h) "Electronic set" includes, but is not limited to, any
television, radio, audio or video recorder or playback equipment,
video camera, video game, video monitor, computer system,
photocopier, or facsimile machine normally used or sold for personal,
family, household, or home office use.
(i) "Appliance" or "major home appliance" includes, but is not
limited to, any refrigerator, freezer, range, microwave oven, washer,
dryer, dishwasher, trash compactor, or room air-conditioner normally
used or sold for personal, family, household, or home office use, or
for use in private motor vehicles.
(j) "Antenna" includes, but is not limited to, a resonant device
designed especially for the purpose of capturing electromagnetic
energy transmitted by direct satellite or commercial radio or
television broadcasting facilities. An antenna and its associated
accessories are not deemed to be a part of a set and shall be
considered, under this section, to be located outside or in the attic
of a residence.
(k) "Rotator," when used in connection with an antenna
installation or repair, includes, but is not limited to, an
electromechanical device operated from a remote location to rotate an
antenna on a horizontal plane. A rotator and its associated
accessories are not deemed to be a part of a set and shall be
considered under this section, with the exception of the directional
control unit, to be located outside or in the attic of a residence.
(l) "Accessories," when used in connection with an antenna or
rotator installation or repair, includes, but is not limited to,
masts, towers, clamps, guy wires, eye hooks, standoff insulators,
roof saddles, vent pipe mounts, chimney mount kits, signal
amplifiers/boosters, multiset couplers, transmission lines, control
cables, directional control units, and other devices as may be used
from time to time to effect installation or repair.
(m) "Computer system" includes, but is not limited to, a central
processing unit that performs data manipulation functions, and any
associated peripheral devices, including, but not limited to,
keyboards, display terminals, printers, or disk drives.
(n) "Video game" includes, but is not limited to, any electronic
amusement device that utilizes a computer, microprocessor, or similar
electronic circuitry and its own cathode ray tube or a television
set or a monitor.
(o) "Direct satellite signal receiving equipment" includes, but is
not limited to, receivers, down converters, amplifiers, and audio or
video processors related to the reception of audio, video, or data
signals broadcasted or rebroadcasted by communication satellites
located in space.
(p) "Electronic repair industry" means those activities defined in
paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of subdivision (f).
(q) "Appliance repair industry" means those activities defined in
paragraph (4) of subdivision (f).

9802. This chapter does not apply to:
(a) Any employee of a service dealer while the employee is engaged
in activities within the normal scope of the employer's business.
(b) The repair, service, or maintenance of equipment used in
commercial, nonresidential, industrial, or governmental
establishments.
(c) The repair, services, or maintenance of equipment the ordinary
and usual use of which requires a license or permit issued by the
Federal Communications Commission.
(d) Any person licensed under Chapter 9 (commencing with Section
7000) as an electrical contractor (C10) or a low-voltage
communications master contractor (C61-D05) and acting within the
scope of his or her license.

9804. No person who is licensed pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing
with Section 7000) of Division 3 of this code shall be required to
register under this chapter if such person's activities are within
the scope of his license; nor shall such person be prohibited from
repairing, servicing, or maintaining equipment of any type, the
installation of which may be performed under his license.

9805. No person registered under this chapter shall be required to
apply for a license pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section
7000) if that person's activities consist only of (a) installing
satellite antenna systems on residential structures or property, or
(b) installing, repairing, servicing, or maintaining televisions, or
an electronic set normally used or sold for personal, family,
household, or home office use, or any appliances, and that
installation, repair, service, or maintenance is not subject to and
regulated under Chapter 9.

9806. (a) An automobile dealer or manufacturer, licensed pursuant
to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 11700) of Division 5 of the
Vehicle Code shall not be required to be registered under this
chapter where such dealer or manufacturer installs or replaces an
electronic set or automobile burglar alarm as a function related to
the sale or repair of a motor vehicle.
(b) No person registered pursuant to Chapter 20.3 (commencing with
Section 9880) shall be required to register under this chapter where
that person's activities are within the scope of his or her
registration and consist of installing an electronic set or
automobile burglar alarm system for use in private motor vehicles.