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title: O.C.G.A. § 43-49-3. Identifying tags affixed to secondhand watches; advertisements and displays as to secondhand watches.
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# O.C.G.A. § 43-49-3. Identifying tags affixed to secondhand watches; advertisements and displays as to secondhand watches.

(a) Any person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation engaged in the business of buying or selling watches or any agent or servant thereof who may sell or exchange, or offer for sale or exchange, expose for sale or exchange, possess with the intent to sell or exchange, or display with the intent to sell or exchange any secondhand watch shall affix and keep affixed to the same a tag with the word ‘‘secondhand’’ clearly and legibly written or printed thereon; and the said tag shall be so affixed or placed that the word ‘‘secondhand’’ shall be plainly in sight at all times.

(b) Any person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation or any agent or servant thereof who may advertise or display in any manner a secondhand watch for sale or exchange shall state clearly in such advertisement or display that such watch is a secondhand watch.

## History

Ga. L. 1945, p. 125, §§ 2, 4; Ga. L. 1994, p. 97, § 43.

## Cross References

False or fraudulent advertising, § 10-1-420 et seq.