17024. “Article or product” includes any article, product, commodity, thing of value, service or output of a service trade.
Motion picture films when licensed for exhibition to motion picture houses are not articles or products under this chapter.
Nothing in this chapter applies:
(1) To any service, article or product for which rates are established under the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission of this State and sold or furnished by any public utility corporation, or installation and repair services rendered in connection with any services, articles or products.
(2) To any service, article or product sold or furnished by a publicly owned public utility and upon which the rates would have been established under the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission of this State if such service, article or product had been sold or furnished by a public utility corporation, or installation and repair services rendered in connection with any services, articles or products.
(Amended by Stats. 1959, Ch. 1638.)