Section 9.05.900. Definitions.

In this chapter  
		(1) "advertising" (including the terms "advertisement" and "advertise") includes the attempt directly or indirectly through publication, dissemination, solicitation, endorsement or circulation, display, including solicitation or dissemination by mail, telephone or door-to-door contacts, or in any other way, to induce a person to enter or not enter into an obligation or acquire title or any other interest in any merchandise or to increase the consumption of it or to make a loan;  
		(2) "disclose" means that the statement, representation, or term is presented clearly and conspicuously in the size, sound, color, or other contrasting manner that an ordinary person would readily observe it considering the circumstances, manner, and mode of presentation;  
		(3) "merchandise" means goods or services or a combination of goods and services;  
		(4) "person" includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, institution, organization, business trust, or society, as well as a natural person;  
		(5) "price comparison" means the comparison in any advertisement of the seller's current price for merchandise with any other price or statement of value for the merchandise or the making of other claims of price reduction or savings with respect to that merchandise in comparison to other merchandise;  
		(6) "regular price" means the actual, good faith price at which the seller openly and actively offered the merchandise to the public on a regular basis, for a reasonable period of time in the recent, regular course of the seller's business. In determining whether merchandise was openly and actively offered, whether a period of time was reasonable, or whether a price was in good faith, the following factors will be considered: the particular merchandise or industry, the season, the number sold at the higher price, shelf life, and other material factors. If a seller has openly and actively offered a good faith price for the 14 selling days immediately before a price reduction, it will be presumed that the higher price was offered for a reasonable period of time in the recent, regular course of business. A seller may use a shorter period of time to establish a regular price, but the seller will then have the burden of showing that the shorter time was reasonable and that the higher price was a good faith price;  
		(7) "seller" means any person who offers merchandise for retail sale;  
		(8) "trade area" means the geographic area where the seller does business as determined by the location of the media in which the advertisement is published and the predominant location of the residences of those customers to whom the advertisements are directed or to whom the seller mails advertisements.  

Authorities

45.50.471;45.50.491;45.50.561

Notes

Authority

AS 45.50.471 AS 45.50.491 AS 45.50.561 Editor's note: For definitions in addition to those in this section (9 AAC 05.900), see AS 45.50.561. ________________________

History

Eff. 4/6/80, Register 74; am 7/26/80, Register 75

References

9.05.900