CODE OF VIRGINIA

“GOING OUT OF BUSINESS” SALES; PERMIT REQUIRED (§ 18.2-223)

It shall be unlawful for any person to advertise, or conduct, a sale for the
purpose of discontinuing a retail business, or to modify the word
“sale” in any advertisement with the words “going out of
business” or any other words which tend to insinuate that the retail
business is to be discontinued and the merchandise liquidated, unless such
person obtains a permit to conduct such sale from the city, town or county, or
from each city, town or county, wherein such sale is to be conducted.A violation
of the provisions of this section shall be punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 59.1-53.1; 1972, c. 399; 1975, cc. 14, 15.