Offenses Affecting Trade, Business and Professions

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Section
97-23-1

False advertising and misrepresentation of nature of business

Section
97-23-3

Advertising; untrue, deceptive, or misleading

Section
97-23-5

Advertising; pulling down advertisements

Section
97-23-7

Cotton; fraudulent packing

Section
97-23-9

Cotton; seed-cotton not sold at night

Section
97-23-11

Cotton; scalage; deductions from true weight of bale prohibited

Section
97-23-13

Cotton; scalage; purchasers of cotton to account for actual weight

Section
97-23-15

Cottonseed meal; adulterated meal to be branded

Section
97-23-17

Customers, patrons or clients; right to choose or refuse to serve; penalty for violation

Section
97-23-19

Embezzlement; by agents, bailees, trustees, servants and persons generally

Section
97-23-21

Embezzlement; evidence of debt negotiable by delivery but not delivered

Section
97-23-23

Embezzlement; buying or receiving embezzled goods

Section
97-23-25

Embezzlement; property held in trust or received on contract

Section
97-23-27

Embezzlement; property borrowed or hired

Section
97-23-29

Enticing away servant or lessee without written consent; provisions applicable to minors

Section
97-23-31

Insurance; acting as agent for company not complying with law

Section
97-23-33

Interference with exercise of lawful trade or calling by printing or distributing of matter, etc.

Section
97-23-35

Newspapers and periodicals to print names of their editors

Section
97-23-37

Oleomargarine and other imitation food to be branded

Section
97-23-39

Preventing employment by force or violence; penalty

Section
97-23-41

Preventing employment by force or violence; conspiracy

Section
97-23-43

Profession; practicing without license

Sections
97-23-45 through 97-23-53

Repealed

Section
97-23-55

Storage battery; unlawful to deface rental battery

Section
97-23-57

Storage battery; unlawful to sell or give away rental battery

Section
97-23-59

Storage battery; unlawful to retain or recharge rental battery

Section
97-23-61

Storage battery; penalty

Sections
97-23-63 through 97-23-82

Repealed

Section
97-23-83

Threats or coercion to prevent lawful conduct of business

Section
97-23-85

Unlawful restraint of trade; boycott; civil liability

Section
97-23-87

Unauthorized copying or sale of recordings

Section
97-23-89

Sale, distribution of recordings without display of required information

Section
97-23-91

Construction of Sections 97-23-87 through 97-23-91; private causes of action; confiscation of illegal recordings

Section
97-23-92

Unauthorized use of audiovisual recording device in motion picture theater

Section
97-23-93

Shoplifting; elements of offense; presumptions; evidence; penalties; aggregation of multiple offenses occurring within same jurisdiction over 30-day period in determining gravity of offense

Section
97-23-93.1

Shoplifting; use of theft detection device remover prohibited; use of theft detection shielding device prohibited; activation of anti-shoplifting device constitutes probable cause for detention

Section
97-23-94

Aiding and abetting shoplifting by minor; penalty

Section
97-23-94.1

Punishment for violation of Section 97-23-94

Section
97-23-95

Shoplifting; detention of suspect for questioning without incurring civil liability

Section
97-23-96

Civil remedy for shoplifting violations; written demand prior to commencing civil proceedings; recovery from parents or legal guardians of minors; costs

Section
97-23-97

Scalping of admission tickets at college events held on state property

Section
97-23-99

Giving away of merchandise by employee without authorization of merchant

Section
97-23-101

Laundering of monetary instruments; offense; penalties; effect of federal conviction

Section
97-23-103

Home repair fraud; definitions; exceptions; penalties

Section
97-23-105

Falsely using or producing retail sales receipts and universal product codes

Section
97-23-107

Residential mortgage fraud; elements of offense; establishing venue; penalties; forfeiture of all property used in or obtained through violation of section; pattern of residential mortgage fraud

Section
97-23-109

Mass picketing by union which obstructs or interferes with free ingress or egress of any person to and from any place of business or private residence; injunctive relief without showing of irreparable harm for business or property owner

Section
97-23-111

Automated sales suppression devices, zappers and phantom-ware programs prohibited; definitions; penalties