Rhode Island General Laws 6-13.2-7. Retail price labels
A price label or tag permanently imprinted on or affixed to consumer property or its container by the manufacturer or supplier (“preticketed price”) and not under control of the retail seller or instigated by him or her or that is required to be attached to consumer property under federal law, need not be covered, obliterated, or removed for purposes of compliance with this statute, unless that item was actually sold at that labeled price in not insubstantial quantities on a substantial basis:
(1) When the retail seller’s current offering price is attached to, printed on, or placed on a label, tag, or sign accompanying the consumer property, provided no price comparison is made by the retail seller based solely on the manufacturer’s price thereon unless the comparison would be valid based on past sales records; or
(2) When the retail seller’s original offering price attached to, printed on, or placed on a label, tag, or sign accompanying the consumer property, is identical to the preticketed price.
History of Section.
P.L. 1992, ch. 408, § 1; P.L. 2014, ch. 528, § 11.
Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 6-13.2-7
- consumer property: includes "merchandise";
(3) "Date" as applied to "date on which a price comparison is stated in the advertisement" in newspapers or other printed publications, means either the date of publication or distribution or the date on which the completed advertising copy is submitted to the printer for final printing and publication, provided the submission date does not exceed thirty (30) days from the date of actual publication or distribution;
(4) "Precious metal" means metals that are prized because of chemical and physical properties (notably resistant to corrosion, hardness, strength, and beauty) desirable in jewelry, coinage, and objects of art, and that are at the same time relatively rare or inexpensive. See Rhode Island General Laws 6-13.2-2
- Price comparison: means the comparison, whether or not expressed wholly or in part in dollars, cents, fractions or percentages, in an advertisement of a seller's current price for consumer property or services with any other price or statement of value for consumer property, whether or not these prices are actually stated in the advertisement; or, the making of price reductions claims or savings claims with respect to the seller's current price. See Rhode Island General Laws 6-13.2-2
- Statute: A law passed by a legislature.