§ 29560 Good Faith Compliance Defense

• •If you follow the rules or orders given by the commissioner or Attorney General, you won’t be punished, even if those rules change later.
• •This protection only works if you acted in good faith, meaning you honestly tried to follow the rules.
• •Even if a court says the rule was wrong later, you’re still safe if you followed it at the time.

A restaurant owner follows a health rule from the government about how to store food. Later, the rule is changed, and the old way is no longer allowed.

The restaurant owner won’t get in trouble for following the old rule before it changed, as long as they were honestly trying to do the right thing.