§ 7.36.010. Untrue, deceptive, and misleading advertising prohibited.  


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  • It is unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, or association, with intent to sell, let, lease, rent or in any way offer or dispose of merchandise, products, securities, service, lodging, or anything offered by such person, firm, corporation or association, directly or indirectly, to the public for rent, lease, sale or distribution, or with intent to increase the consumption, or to induce the public in any manner to enter into any obligation relating thereto, or to acquire title or any interest, to make, publish, post, disseminate, display, circulate or place before the public, or cause, directly or indirectly, to be made, published, posted, disseminated, displayed, circulated or placed before the public in the unincorporated towns of the county, in a newspaper or other publication or in form of a book, notice, handbill, poster, bill, circular, pamphlet, letter, sign or billboard, or in any other way, an advertisement of any sort regarding such lodgings, meals, merchandise, products, securities, service or anything so offered to the public, which advertisement contains any assertion, representation or statement of fact which is untrue, deceptive or misleading.

(Ord. 116 § 1, 1960)