§ 6-14-3. License required for sale.
No person shall offer for sale a stock of goods, wares, and merchandise under the description of “closing-out sale”; “going-out-of-business sale”; “discontinuance-of-business sale”; “selling-out”; “liquidation”; “lost our lease”; “must vacate”; “forced out”; “removal”; or other designation of like meaning, or a sale of goods, wares, and merchandise damaged by fire, smoke, water, or otherwise, unless he or she shall have first obtained a license to conduct a sale from the clerk of the city or town in which he or she proposes to conduct a sale.
History of Section.P.L. 1956, ch. 3762, § 2; G.L. 1956, § 6-14-3; P.L. 2014, ch. 528, § 13.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Title 6 - Commercial Law – General Regulatory Provisions
Chapter 6-14 - Closing Out Sales
Section 6-14-1. - “Person” defined.
Section 6-14-3. - License required for sale.
Section 6-14-4. - Application for license.
Section 6-14-5. - False statements as perjury.
Section 6-14-6. - Issuance of license — Bond — Change of ownership.
Section 6-14-7. - Record of license application.
Section 6-14-8. - Acts authorized by license.
Section 6-14-9. - Additions to stock in contemplation of sale.
Section 6-14-10. - Additions during sale.
Section 6-14-11. - Continuance of business after expiration of license.
Section 6-14-11.1. - Purchase of stock or inventory following a sale.
Section 6-14-12. - Unlicensed sales.
Section 6-14-13. - Penalty for violations generally.
Section 6-14-14. - Enforcement in equity.
Section 6-14-15. - Exemption of public officers and acts under judicial authority.