Whenever a commodity in package form is advertised in any manner and the retail price of the package is stated in the advertisement, there shall be closely and conspicuously associated with such statement of price a declaration of the basic quantity of contents of the package as is required by law or regulation to appear on the package; provided in connection with the declaration required under this section there shall be declared neither the qualifying term “when packed” nor any other words of similar import, nor such terms qualifying a unit of weight, measure or count as “jumbo”, “giant”, “full” and the like, that tend to exaggerate the amount of commodity in the package.
(1967, P.A. 804, S. 8.)
Cited. 158 C. 543.
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Title 42 - Business, Selling, Trading and Collection Practices
Chapter 736 - Unfair Sales Practices
Section 42-111 to 42-115d. - Unfair or deceptive trade practices, generally.
Section 42-115e. - Injunction.
Section 42-115f. - Exceptions.
Section 42-115g. - Sales of commodities in package form. Definitions.
Section 42-115h. - Inspection of packaged commodities. Off-sale orders.
Section 42-115i. - Stop-use, stop-removal and removal orders.
Section 42-115k. - Labeling of commodity package.
Section 42-115l. - Label to show price per unit.
Section 42-115m. - Wrapper or container not to mislead purchaser. Guarantee. Regulations.
Section 42-115n. - Advertisement of price to show quantity.
Section 42-115o. - Net weight to be used.
Section 42-115p. - Price not to be misrepresented or misleading.
Section 42-115q. - Injunctions against violations.
Section 42-115r. - Alteration of tire by addition of white or colored stripe.
Section 42-115s. - Advertising of artificial Christmas trees for sale.
Section 42-115t. - Cash register read-outs to be visible to consumer. Violations. Enforcement.