2024 Iowa Code
Title XIV - PROPERTY
Chapter 556E - GOLD AND SILVER ALLOY
Section 556E.3 - “Sterling silver.”

556E.3 “Sterling silver.” Any person making for sale, selling, or offering to sell or dispose of, or having in possession with intent to sell or dispose of, any article of merchandise made in whole or in part of silver orof any alloy of silver and having marked, stamped, branded, engraved, or imprinted thereon,or upon any tag, card, or label attached thereto, or upon any container in which said articleis enclosed, the words “sterling silver” or “sterling” or any colorable imitation thereof, unlessnine hundred twenty-five one-thousandths of the component parts of the metal purporting tobe silver of which such article is manufactured are pure silver, subject to the qualificationshereinafter set forth, is guilty of a fraudulent practice, but in the case of all such articles thereshall be allowed a divergence in fineness of four one-thousandths parts from the foregoingstandard. [S13, §5077-b1; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §1908; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §119.3] C93, §556E.3Referred to in §556E.6 Sat Dec 23 11:04:42 2023 Iowa Code 2024, Section 556E.3 (15, 0)

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