§ 176. Certain price increases prohibited
(a) Price increases for consumer goods previously offered for sale to consumers are prohibited. (b) Definitions—as used in this section: (1) “Retail establishment” means a store selling primarily items packaged individually, including food. (2) “Consumer goods” means tangible items that are used or brought for use primarily for personal, family, or household purposes. (3) “Offered […]
§ 177. Pull dated items
(a) As used in this section: (1) “Food commodity in package form” means a food commodity put up or packaged in any manner in advance of sale suitable for either wholesale or retail sale. (2) “Label” means any written, printed, or graphic matter affixed to, applied to, attached to, blown into, formed, molded into, embossed […]
§ 171. Misrepresentations; display of price
(a) Whenever any commodity or service is sold, or is offered, exposed or advertised for sale, by weight, measure or count, the price shall not be misrepresented, nor shall the price be represented in any manner calculated or tending to mislead or deceive an actual or prospective purchaser. Whenever an advertised, posted or labeled price […]
§ 171a. Meters required on trucks transporting and dispensing liquids
All tank trucks used in the transportation and sale of water, petroleum products or any other liquids to United States Virgin Islands’ consumers shall be equipped with meters to accurately measure the number of gallons or other appropriate liquid measure being dispensed to the consumer. Each purchaser of water, petroleum products or other liquid dispensed […]
§ 172. Instruction of enforcement officers
Any person who shall hinder or obstruct in any way the Director, deputy directors or any inspector in the performance of his official duties shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
§ 165. Liquid and nonliquid measurement
Commodities in liquid form shall be sold only by liquid measure or by weight, and commodities not in liquid form shall be sold only by weight, measure, or by count, and shall be sold and marked in terms of the largest unit. However, liquid commodities may be sold by weight and nonliquid commodities may be […]
§ 165a. Scale for customers’ use
When commodities are packaged on the premises of a store, shop, or other establishment selling foodstuffs and when such commodities are offered for sale by weight, a scale or other weighing device that shows the weight shall be placed within plain view and conveniently near the display, counter, or case containing said commodities, which scale […]
§ 166. Packaged commodities
Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter, any commodity in package form kept for the purpose of sale or offered or exposed for sale, shall bear on the outside of the package such definite, plain, legible and conspicuous declarations of: (1) the identity of the commodity in the package unless the same can easily be […]
§ 167. Random weights
In addition to the declarations required by the preceding section of this subchapter, any commodity in package form, which package is one of a lot containing random weights, measures or counts of the same commodity and bears the total selling price of the package, shall bear on the outside of the package a plain and […]
§ 168. Misleading wrappers
Any commodity in package form shall not be so wrapped, nor shall it be in a container so made, formed or filled as to mislead the purchaser as to the quantity of the contents of the package.