Bill Text: GA HB42 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: False advertising; use of term "wholesale"; repeal prohibition

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-14 - House Withdrawn, Recommitted [HB42 Detail]

Download: Georgia-2011-HB42-Comm_Sub.html

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11 LC 25 5791S

The House Committee on Agriculture and Consumer Affairs offers the following

substitute to HB 42:

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT

To amend Part 4 of Article 15 of Chapter 1 of Title 10 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to false advertising, so as to repeal the prohibition against the use of the term "wholesale" and certain other terms by persons, firms, associations, and corporations in sales or advertising when such persons, firms, associations, and corporations sell to consuming purchasers; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

SECTION 1.

Part 4 of Article 15 of Chapter 1 of Title 10 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to false advertising, is amended by repealing Code Section 10-1-424, relating to misrepresenting the nature of a business, and designating said Code section as reserved.

SECTION 2.

Said part is further amended by revising Code Section 10-1-426, relating to penalties for violations, as follows:

"10-1-426.

Any person, firm, association, or corporation violating any of the provisions of Code Sections 10-1-424 and Section 10-1-425 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Nothing in Code Section 10-1-424 or 10-1-425 or this Code section shall apply to any visual or sound broadcasting station or to any publisher or printer of a newspaper, magazine, or other form of printed advertising who broadcasts, telecasts, publishes, or prints such advertisement in good faith without knowledge of its false or fraudulent character."

SECTION 3.

This Act shall become effective upon its approval by the Governor or upon its becoming law without such approval.

SECTION 4.

All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.