(a) A separate application for a license as a prepaid rental listing service shall be made in writing for each location to be operated by a licensee other than a real estate broker. Each application shall be on forms provided by the department, shall be signed by the applicant, and shall be accompanied by a one-hundred-twenty-five-dollar ($125) application fee for the first location, and a fifty-dollar ($50) application fee for each additional location of the applicant.

Applications to add or eliminate locations during the term of a license shall be on forms prescribed by the department. A fifty-dollar ($50) application fee for the remainder of a license term for each location to be added shall accompany the application. Twenty-five dollars ($25) of each application fee shall be credited to the Consumer Recovery Account.

Terms Used In California Business and Professions Code 10167.3

  • Fee: means the charge required by a licensee (1) to obtain listings of residential real properties for tenancy or (2) to purchase any other product or service in order to obtain listings. See California Business and Professions Code 10167
  • license: means license, certificate, registration, or other means to engage in a business or profession regulated by this code or referred to in Section 1000 or 3600. See California Business and Professions Code 23.7
  • Licensee: means a person licensed to conduct a prepaid rental listing service or a person engaged in the business of a prepaid rental listing service under a real estate broker license. See California Business and Professions Code 10167
  • listing: as used in this part includes, but is not limited to:

    California Business and Professions Code 10027

  • Location: means the place, other than the main or branch office of a real estate broker, where a prepaid rental listing service business is conducted. See California Business and Professions Code 10167
  • Prepaid rental listing service: means the business of supplying prospective tenants with listings of residential real properties for tenancy, by publication or otherwise, pursuant to an arrangement under which the prospective tenants are required to pay an advance or contemporaneous fee (1) specifically to obtain listings or (2) to purchase any other product or service in order to obtain listings, but which does not otherwise involve the negotiation of rentals by the person conducting the service. See California Business and Professions Code 10167
  • Recovery Account: shall be deemed to refer to the Consumer Recovery Account. See California Business and Professions Code 10450.6
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • Salesperson: when used without modification, means a person licensed as a salesperson under any of the provisions of this part. See California Business and Professions Code 10013

(b) A real estate broker may provide a prepaid rental listing service at a licensed office for the conduct of the broker’s real estate brokerage business if the business at the office is conducted under the immediate supervision of the broker or of a real estate salesperson licensed to, and acting on behalf of, the broker.

(Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 431, Sec. 14. (SB 800) Effective January 1, 2022.)

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