§ 31002 Good Faith Compliance Protection

• •If you follow the rules given by the commissioner or Attorney General, you won't get in trouble even if those rules change later.
• •This protection only works if you acted in good faith, meaning you honestly tried to follow the rules.
• •It doesn’t matter if the rule is later found to be wrong or invalid—you’re still safe if you followed it.

A store owner follows a written rule from the government about how to label products. Later, the rule is changed, but the store owner is not punished for following the old rule.

The store owner won’t get in trouble because they honestly followed the rule at the time, even though it changed later.