PRINTER'S NO. 1848
No. 1413 Session of 1990
INTRODUCED BY BELL, JANUARY 22, 1990
REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION AND PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE,
JANUARY 22, 1990
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, regulating the price marking of
3 grocery items.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Title 18 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
7 Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
8 § 7326. Price marking of grocery items.
9 (a) Price display required.--Every store which sells, offers
10 for sale or exposes for sale grocery items and at which more
11 than six persons are employed shall display the selling price of
12 each grocery item.
13 (b) Manner of display.--The selling price shall, at a
14 minimum, be displayed in clear, conspicuous and plainly visible
15 Arabic numerals on a shelf tag positioned in the middle of the
16 items displayed. The shelf tag for packaged goods shall, in
17 addition to the selling price, display the price per unit of
18 measure.
1 (c) Offense defined.--Any person who by himself or by his
2 servant or agent, or as the servant or agent of another person,
3 violates the provisions of this section commits a summary
4 offense and shall, for the first offense, be sentenced to pay a
5 fine of not less than $50 nor more than $200 and, for a second
6 or subsequent offense, be sentenced to pay a fine of not less
7 than $100 nor more than $500, or to imprisonment for not more
8 than one year, or both.
9 (d) Definition.--As used in this section, the term "grocery
10 items" means all food items meant for human consumption and sold
11 at retail or at discount.
12 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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