2013 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 39 - Trade and Commerce
CHAPTER 16 - SALE OF FINE PRINTS; DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS
SECTION 39-16-30. General prohibitions; applicability to "reproductions".
(a) An art merchant or person may not knowingly publish or distribute any catalog, prospectus, or circular which offers for sale a fine print unless it clearly and conspicuously discloses all information required by Section 39-16-40.
(b) An art merchant or person may not knowingly sell at retail or wholesale any fine print unless a written invoice, receipt for the purchase price, or certificate furnished to the purchaser clearly and conspicuously discloses all information required by Section 39-16-40.
(c) If a print is described as a "reproduction", the information required by Section 39-16-40 is not required to be disclosed unless the print allegedly was published in a limited edition, an edition of numbered or signed prints, or any combination of them.
(d) An art merchant or person offering for auction a fine print to which this article is applicable at an auction where nonart property also is sold shall provide a written invoice disclosing all information required by Section 39-16-40.
HISTORY: 1986 Act No. 396, eff September 1, 1986; 1988 Act No. 506, Section 3, eff May 9, 1988.
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