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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 10. COMMERCE AND TRADE · Chapter 1. SELLING AND OTHER TRADE PRACTICES · Article 15. DECEPTIVE OR UNFAIR PRACTICES · Part 4. FALSE ADVERTISING

10-1-424. Misrepresenting nature of business.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. It shall be unlawful:

  2. (1)

    For any person, firm, association, or corporation to misrepresent the true nature of its business by use of the words “manufacturer,” “wholesaler,” “retailer,” or words of similar import; or#

  3. (2)

    For any person, firm, association, or corporation to represent itself as selling at wholesale or use the word “wholesale” in any form of sale or advertising,#

    1. unless such person, firm, association, or corporation is actually selling at wholesale those items advertised for the purpose of resale. For the purpose of this Code section the term “wholesale” means a sale made for the purpose of resale and not one made to the consuming purchaser.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Ga. L. 1962, p. 129, § 1.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t10-(v8)-2024-pdf.pdf, Volume V8, 2024 edition, page 341; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 7afbade16da7.