Redondo Beach Municipal Code Ch. 4 Unlawful Sales

For the purposes of this chapter, a fake sale shall be any of the following:

(a) The sale of goods, wares or merchandise at auction or otherwise to agents or other persons purchasing the same for or on behalf of the owner or other person interested in the sale thereof;

(b) The sale of goods, wares or merchandise, or the offering of goods, wares or merchandise for sale in limited quantities of less than the full amount of such merchandise owned or carried in stock by the person offering the same for sale;

(c) The offering for sale of goods, wares or merchandise of a different quality or brand or bearing a different trademark as a substitute for merchandise previously advertised for sale;

(d) The sale of any goods, wares or merchandise misrepresented as to quantity or quality, or otherwise; or

(e) The sale or offering for sale of any goods, wares or merchandise transported or brought into the City, or not constituting the original legitimate stock of goods, wares or merchandise of a place of business within the City, as the original and legitimate stock of goods, wares or merchandise of such place of business at a bankrupt, insurance, mortgage, insolvency, assignee's, receiver's, trustee's, creditor's, executor's or administrator's forced removal or closing out sale, or the sale of goods damaged by fire, smoke or water, or otherwise.

The provisions of this section shall not be deemed to prevent, nor shall it be considered unlawful, the sale of the original stock of goods, wares or merchandise of a place of business at a bankrupt, insurance, mortgage, insolvency, assignee's, receiver's, trustee's, creditor's, executor's, or administrator's forced removal or closing out sale, but the bringing of new stock into the City, or the adding of new stock to the original stock of goods, wares or merchandise and selling or offering to sell such new stock or added stock as the original stock of such goods, wares or merchandise at such place of business at any of the sales described is hereby declared unlawful and to be a fake sale within the meaning of the provisions of this chapter.

(§ 2, Ord. 803)

It is unlawful for any person to conduct, make or advertise any fake sale of goods, wares or merchandise in the City.

(§ 1, Ord. 803)