Ventura Municipal Code Ch. 6.10 False Advertising

A. Purported Forced Sale. It shall be unlawful for any person to conduct, manage or carry on the sale of goods, wares, or merchandise, or to cause or to permit the same to be done within the city, which is being or has been advertised as a sheriff’s sale, assignee’s sale, creditor’s sale, consignee’s sale, bankrupt’s sale, trustee’s sale, or receiver’s sale, when such sale is not made pursuant to an order of a legally constituted court or other constituted legal authority.

B. Misrepresentations. It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, furnish, perform or in any way dispose of real or personal property, services, professional or otherwise, or anything of any nature whatsoever, directly or indirectly to the public, or to induce the public in any manner to enter into any obligation relating thereto, or to acquire title thereto, or any interest therein, by means of publishing, circulating, or causing to be made, published, or circulated before the public in the city in any newspaper, magazine, book, pamphlet, circular, letter, notice, handbill, poster or other publication or on any billboard, sign card, label or other advertising medium, including any electric sign, window sign, show case or window display or any other advertising device, or by public outcry, or proclamation, or in any other manner or means whatever, which advertising shall contain any statement, representation, or assertion concerning such real or personal property, service or anything so offered to the public, or concerning any circumstance or matter of fact connected in any way, directly or indirectly with the proposed sale, performance or disposition thereof, which statement, representation or assertion is false or untrue, in any respect, or which is deceptive or misleading. (Code 1971, § 2212)