California Code
TITLE 1.6C.5 - Fair Debt Buying Practices
Section 1788.56.

1788.56. A debt buyer shall not bring suit or initiate an arbitration or other legal proceeding to collect a consumer debt if the applicable statute of limitations on the debt buyer’s claim has expired.

(Added by Stats. 2013, Ch. 64, Sec. 2. (SB 233) Effective January 1, 2014.)