(a) The bureau may establish rules for the performance of any service of the character furnished or supplied by household movers. Every household mover shall observe these rules. Failure to do so is unlawful. A violation of the chapter or the bureau’s rules may be grounds for discipline.

(b) The bureau shall establish rules to authorize an electronic form of documents required by this chapter, consistent with the purpose of the document and if the household mover and the customer agree to the use of an electronic form.

Terms Used In California Business and Professions Code 19243

  • Bureau: refers to the Bureau of Household Goods and Services, as established in Section 9810. See California Business and Professions Code 19225.5
  • Household mover: includes every corporation or person, their lessees, trustee, receivers, or trustees appointed by any court whatsoever, engaged in the permitted or unpermitted transportation for compensation or hire as a business by means of a motor vehicle or motor vehicles being used in the transportation of used household goods and personal effects over any public highway in this state. See California Business and Professions Code 19225.5

(Added by Stats. 2017, Ch. 421, Sec. 8. (SB 19) Effective January 1, 2018.)