T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S P RT I A ... - Broome County

§ 102-5 CONSUMER PROTECTION § 102-5
(4) Goods or services are of a particular standard, quality, grade, style or model if they
are of another.
B. The use, in any oral or written representation, of exaggeration, innuendo or ambiguity as
to a material fact.
C. Failure to state a material fact if such use or failure deceives or tends to deceive.
D. Disparaging the goods, services or business of another by false or misleading
representation of material facts.
E. Consistently offering goods or services without intent to supply reasonably expectable
public demand, unless the offer discloses the limitation.
F. Offering goods or services without intent to sell them.
G. Making false or misleading representations of fact concerning the reason for or existence
of or amounts of price reductions, or the price in comparison to the prices of competitors
or one's own price at a past or future time.
H. Falsely stating that a consumer transaction involves consumer rights, remedies or
obligations.
I. Falsely stating that services, replacements or repairs are needed.
J. Falsely stating the reasons for offering or supplying goods or services at sale or discount
prices.
K. Communicating with the debtor or any member of his family or household with such
frequency or at such unusual hours or in such a manner as can reasonably be expected to
abuse or harass the debtor. Such communications with the debtor or any member of his
or her family at the debtor's home between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 6:30 a.m. shall
be deemed a violation of this subsection.
L. Any deception, fraud, false pretense, false premise, misrepresentation or the knowing
concealment, suppression or omission of any material fact with the intent that consumers
rely upon such concealment, suppression or omission in connection with the sale or
advertisement of any merchandise or with the subsequent performance of person
aforesaid, whether or not any person has, in fact, been misled, deceived or damaged
hereby.
M. Use of the word "free," except as herein provided:
(1) When making free or similar offers, all substantial terms, conditions and
obligations upon which the right to take advantage of such offer is directly
dependent shall appear in close conjunction with the offer of free merchandise or
service, and in a manner which is as prominent as the offer of free merchandise or
service. For the purpose of this regulation, placement of the terms of an offer set
forth in a footnote of an advertisement to which the reference is made by an
asterisk or other symbol placed next to the offer is not in close conjunction.
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