Section 110-4 UNTRUE, DECEPTIVE OR MISLEADING ADVERTISEMENTS.

Any person who, with intent to sell or in any way dispose of merchandise, securities, service or anything offered by such person, directly or indirectly, to the public for sale or distribution or with intent to increase the consumption thereof or to induce the public in any manner to enter into any obligation relating thereto or to acquire title thereto or any interest therein, makes, publishes, disseminates, circulates or places before the public or causes, directly or indirectly to be made, published, disseminated, circulated or placed before the public in this town, in a newspaper or other publication or in the form of a book, notice, handbill, poster, blueprint, map, bill, tag, label, circular, pamphlet or letter or in any other way, an advertisement of any sort regarding merchandise, securities, service, land, lot or anything so offered to the public, which advertisement contains any promise, assertion, representation or statement of fact which is untrue, deceptive or misleading shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. The words "untrue, deceptive and misleading," as used in this section, shall be construed as including the advertising in any manner by any person of any goods, wares or merchandise as a bankrupt stock, receiver's stock or trustee's stock, if such stock contains any goods, wares or merchandise put therein subsequent to the date of the purchase by such advertiser of such stock contains any of the purchase by such advertiser of such stock, and if such advertisement of any stock fails to set forth the fact that such stock contains other goods, wares or merchandise put therein, subsequent to the date of the purchase by such advertiser of such stock in type as large as the type used in any other part of such advertisement, including the caption of the same, it shall be a violation of this section.