§ 5.20.030. Definitions.

Whenever used in this chapter, the following terms shall mean:

"Publish," "publishing," "advertisement," and "advertising" mean any and all means of conveying to the public notice of sale or notice of intention to conduct a sale, whether by word of mouth, by newspaper advertisement, by magazine advertisement, by handbill, by written notice, by printed notice, by printed display, by billboard display, by poster, by radio, or television announcement and any and all means including oral, written or printed.

"Sale" means the sale or an offer to sell to the public, goods, wares and merchandise of any and all kinds and descriptions on hand and in stock in connection with a declared purpose, as set forth by advertising on the part of the seller that such sale is anticipatory to the termination, closing, liquidation, revision, wind-up, discontinuance, conclusion or abandonment of the business at its existing site in connection with such sale. It shall also include any sale advertised to be a "fire-sale," "adjustment sale," creditor's sale," "trustee's sale," "liquidation sale," "reorganization sale," "alteration sale," "executor's sale," "administrator's sale," "insolvent sale," "insurance salvage sale," "mortgage sale," "assignee's sale," "adjustor's sale," "receiver's sale," "loss-of-lease sale," "wholesaler's closing-out sale," "creditor's committee sale," "forced-out-of-business sale," "removal sale," "emergency sale" and any and all sales advertised in such manner as to reasonably convey to the public that upon the disposal of the stock of goods on hand, the business will cease and be discontinued at the place of sale.

(Prior code § 5-18.02)