It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this article to require the reporting of personal property exchanged, sold, or offered for sale or exchange at swap meets, flea markets, and open-air markets, and information regarding vendors selling or displaying new merchandise, for the purpose of ensuring that swap meet, open-air market, and flea market operators and vendors are in complete compliance with all state laws and regulations applicable to displaying, offering for sale, selling, and exchanging new and previously owned merchandise.

This article shall apply to operators and vendors at swap meets, flea markets, and open-air markets unless the merchandise or the transaction is specifically exempt under this article and shall not be superseded or supplanted by any provisions or ordinances or charters of any city, county, or city and county, nor supplemented by any local ordinances or charters or provisions. Nothing contained in this article shall be deemed to affect the land use and zoning regulatory power of a local agency, nor be construed to require any local agency to permit swap meets, flea markets, or open-air markets if local land use or zoning regulations prohibit those operations.

Terms Used In California Business and Professions Code 21660

  • City: includes city and county. See California Business and Professions Code 18
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • County: includes city and county. See California Business and Professions Code 17
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Business and Professions Code 21
  • swap meet: as used in this article , includes a flea market or an open-air market and means an event, regardless of the number of persons offering or displaying personal property or the absence of fees, at which used personal property is offered or displayed for sale or exchange if the event is held more than six times in any 12-month period. See California Business and Professions Code 21661

Any transaction that is regulated by this article shall not be subject to the provisions of Article 4 (commencing with Section 21625), regulating transactions in identifiable secondhand tangible personal property. No person, partnership, or corporation shall be considered a “secondhand dealer” within the meaning of Section 21626 because of activities regulated by this article.

Article 5 (commencing with Section 21650) of this chapter shall not apply to operators or vendors at swap meets, flea markets, or open-air markets.

(Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 334, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2003.)

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