Article 2. Printing Schools of California Education Code >> Division 1. >> Title 1. >> Part 19. >> Chapter 3. >> Article 2.

No printing concern, institution, or other agency maintaining a printing plant or department for the purpose of instruction or the teaching of the art of printing, or allied arts, and whose purpose is to teach or instruct its students or members, shall produce, print, or cause to be printed any material whatsoever that may be placed on the market in competition with regularly established printing plants or concerns, if such printing concern, institution, or other agency is supported or operated from public or state funds or is tax free in any manner.

This article does not apply to:
  (a) Any institution classified as an educational institution within the meaning and intent of Section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code of the United States or of Section 23701d of the Revenue and Taxation Code and that, nevertheless, pays general state and county taxes within this state upon any printing plant and printing equipment owned by it.
  (b) The production of forms, materials, and supplies at any state educational institution under the exclusive management and control of the state and authorized by law.
  (c) Any publication, printed and produced at any state educational institution under the exclusive management and control of the state for the dissemination of technical or scientific information and that is sold at cost.
  (d) Printing which may be classified as "instruction" or "student activity."

The violation of this article is a misdemeanor.