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CALIFORNIA BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE DIVISION 7, PART 3, CHAPTER 1 ARTICLE 18. Restrictions On Unsolicited Commercial E-mail Advertisers added by SB 186 2003 , approved September 23, 2003 17529. 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.
California is 12 percent of the United States population with an emphasis on technology business, and it is therefore estimated that spam costs California organizations well over 12 billion dollars $1,200,000,000.
If an addressee of an unsolicited commercial e-mail advertisement has one or more e-mail addresses to which an unsolicited commercial e-mail advertisement is sent, the addressee shall be deemed to be a separate recipient for each e-mail address to which the e-mail advertisement is sent.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person or entity may not do any of the following: a Initiate or advertise in an unsolicited commercial e-mail advertisement from California or advertise in an unsolicited commercial e-mail advertisement sent from California.
If any provision of this section or its application is held invalid, that invalidity shall not affect any other provision or application that can be given effect without the invalid provision or application.
Nothing in this article shall be construed to limit or restrict the adoption, implementation, or enforcement by a provider of Internet access service of a policy of declining to transmit, receive, route, relay, handle, or store certain types of electronic mail messages.
If any provision of this article or its application is held invalid, that invalidity shall not affect any other provision or application that can be given effect without the invalid provision or application.
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