[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Jamestown 3-26-1962
as Ch. 13 of the 1962 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
A.
It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or offer
for sale or advertise for sale at retail for use in internal-combustion engines,
motor vehicles or otherwise any gasoline or other petroleum products unless
such seller shall post and keep continuously and conspicuously posted at the
premises where such sale or offer for sale or advertisement for sale of such
products is made signs or placards not less than seven inches in height and
eight inches in width nor more than 12 inches in height and 12 inches in width,
stating clearly and legibly in letters and numbers of uniform size and color
with respect to each such gasoline or other petroleum product the retail selling
price or prices per unit thereof, the combined state and federal tax applicable
thereto and the total retail price including tax to a purchaser or prospective
purchaser in three separate sets of figures, together with the name, trade
name, brand, mark or symbol and grade or quality classification, if any, of
such gasoline or other petroleum products. All letters, figures or numerals
of each sign or placard affixed thereto, marked thereon, imprinted thereon,
placed thereon or embossed thereon shall be at least 1/4 inch in height,
and all of the lines or marks used in the making or forming of any such letters,
figures or numerals which are a part of such signs shall be at least 1/8
inch in width. The stating of a fractional part of a figure shall be indicated
so that the numerator and denominator are of equal size and the combined overall
size shall be the same as that of a whole number. If such gasoline or other
petroleum products are sold by the use of or through or from any pump or other
device, such sign or placard shall be inserted in a bracket no more than 12
inches in height and 12 inches in width attached to such pump or dispensing
device from which such gasoline or other petroleum products are dispensed,
except that the selling price of the products as usually contained in the
face of computing pumps through which such products are dispensed sufficiently
complies with the provisions of this subsection, thus eliminating the necessity
of any additional price, sign or placard. In any case, such sign or placard
shall be so located and placed that it may easily be seen or read by a purchaser
or prospective purchaser of such products.
B.
No other sign or placard stating, referring to or implying the price of such gasoline or other petroleum products, except a facsimile of the sign or placard as specified in the preceding Subsection A, shall be posted or maintained on or within the vicinity of the premises at which such gasoline or other petroleum products are sold or offered for sale or advertised for sale by such person, directly or indirectly.
It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or offer for sale or advertise
for sale gasoline or other petroleum products at retail in any manner so as
to deceive or tend to deceive a purchaser or prospective purchaser as to the
price, nature, quality or identity thereof or to sell or offer for sale or
advertise for sale from any pump or other dispensing device any gasoline or
other petroleum product other than that manufactured or distributed by the
manufacturer or distributor marketing such gasoline or other petroleum products
under the name, trade name, brand, mark or symbol affixed to or contained
on such pump or the dispensing device or to mix or adulterate gasoline or
other petroleum products sold or offered for sale or advertised for sale under
a name, trade name, brand, mark or symbol or to substitute other gasoline
or petroleum products therefor.
[Added 6-28-1971; amended 11-15-1971; 3-25-1974; 10-6-1975]
Every gasoline filling station within the City shall offer for sale
at retail gasoline with a lead content no higher than has been prescribed
by Federal Environmental Protection Agency regulations, as amended.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Former Sections 13.5 and 13.6, which immediately followed
this section and dealt with lead content and additives, were deleted 10-6-1975.
