Unfair trade practice

1. Law
2. District of Columbia Code
3. Commercial Instruments and Transactions. [Enacted title]
4. Cigarette Sales Below Cost
5. Unfair trade practice

The secret payment or allowance of rebates, refunds, commissions, or unearned discounts for cigarettes, whether in the form of money or otherwise, or secretly extending to certain purchasers of cigarettes special services or privileges not extended to all purchasers of cigarettes, upon like terms and conditions, to the injury of a competitor, and where such payment or allowance tends to destroy competition, is an unfair trade practice. Any wholesaler or retailer of cigarettes resorting to such an unfair trade practice shall be subject to the penalties provided in § 28-4525.

(Mar. 22, 1994, D.C. Law 10-89, § 2(b), 41 DCR 489.)

Prior Codifications

1981 Ed., § 28-4524.

Section References

This section is referenced in § 28-4526.

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