396-B - Advertisements.

§   396-b.   Advertisements.      Any  person,  firm,  corporation  or  association, or agent or employee thereof,  hereinafter  called  person,  who,  being  engaged  in the business of dealing in any property, 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 state, any advertisement  respecting any such property,  in  any  newspaper,  magazine,  or  other  publication,  or over any radio station or television station, unless it  is stated in any such advertisement that the advertiser is a  dealer  in  such  property or from the context of any such advertisement, it plainly  appears that such person is a dealer in such  property  so  offered  for  sale  in  any  such  advertisement;  or when placing or causing any such  advertisement to appear in any newspaper, magazine or other  publication  or  radio  or  television  station  as  described  in  this  section, if  requested by the publisher of any  such  newspaper,  magazine  or  other  publication  or owner or operator of such radio or television station or  any agent or representative thereof to file with such owner or operator,  publisher, agent or representative thereof his true name, or where he is  transacting business under a name other than the true name  pursuant  to  law,  then  the  name  under which such business is transacted, and each  business address wherein any business is transacted by him, in the class  of  property  advertised  or  to  be  advertised  for   sale   in   such  advertisement, shall make any false statement in relation to any of such  items;  or if requested by the publisher of any such newspaper, magazine  or other publication or owner or operator of such  radio  or  television  station  or any agent or representative thereof to file with such owner,  operator, publisher, agent or representative thereof a statement showing  whether he is causing such advertisement to appear  or  is  offering  to  make  such  sale  or disposition or transaction, as herein set forth, as  principal or agent, and if as agent, to set forth such information as is  specified in this section, in relation to his principal as  well  as  in  relation  to  himself, shall make any false statement in relation to any  of such items; is guilty of a misdemeanor.