{"data":{"id":"us-ca/bpc-17204","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"BPC § 17204","heading":"","body":"Actions for Injunctions by Attorney General, District Attorney, County Counsel, and City Attorneys\nActions for relief pursuant to this chapter shall be prosecuted exclusively in a court of competent jurisdiction by the Attorney General or a district attorney or by a county counsel authorized by agreement with the district attorney in actions involving violation of a county ordinance, or by a city attorney of a city having a population in excess of 750,000, or by a county counsel of any county within which a city has a population in excess of 750,000, or by a city attorney in a city and county or, with the consent of the district attorney, by a city prosecutor in a city having a full-time city prosecutor in the name of the people of the State of California upon their own complaint or upon the complaint of a board, officer, person, corporation, or association, or by a person who has suffered injury in fact and has lost money or property as a result of the unfair competition.","path":["Business and Professions Code - BPC","DIVISION 7. GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS [16000. - 18107.]","PART 2. PRESERVATION AND REGULATION OF COMPETITION [16600. - 17365.]","CHAPTER 5. Enforcement [17200. - 17210.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"391467fdb183e6fc276836b4ca639b55934fa105436bdc22b4d0d9284b1fcd53","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/bpc-17203","next":"us-ca/bpc-17205"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}