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Section 21-132. or destroying personal~pr°perty,
<br />· -~standing grain, etc.
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<br /> If any person maliciously, or with'intent to defraud
<br /> an insurance company or other person, sets~fire to or burns
<br /> or destroys by any explosive device or substance, or causes
<br /> to be burned, or destroyed by any explosive device or sub-
<br /> stance, or aidsr counsels, or procures, the burning or
<br /> destroying by any explosive device or substance, Of any
<br /> personal property, standing grain or other crop,~ ke shall,
<br /> if the thing burnt or destroyed be of value of less than
<br /> $200.00 ~ of a Class 1 misdemeanor-
<br /> Sect misleading advertising
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<br /> ~ersonf corporation orassociation who,'~i~h 'il
<br /> ~ . intent to sell or in anywise dispose of merchandise, securities,
<br /> ~ service or anything offered by such person, firm, corporation
<br /> er association~, directly or indirectly, to the public for
<br /> sale or distribution or with intent to increase the consumption
<br /> thereof., or to ~induce the public in any manner to enter into any
<br /> obligation relating thereto, or to acquire title thereto, or
<br /> any interest therein, makes~ publishes, disseminates, circulates
<br /> or places before the public, or.causes, directly or indirectly to
<br /> ' be'made, published, disseminated, circulated or placed before
<br /> the oublic in this City, in a newspaper or other publications,
<br /> or i~ the form of a book, notice, handbill, poster, blueprint,
<br /> map, bill, tag,',label, circular, pamphlet or letter or in any
<br /> other way, an advertisement of any sort regarding merchandise,
<br /> -securities, service, land, lot or anything so offered to the
<br /> public, which advertisement contains any promise, assertion,
<br /> representation or statement of fact which is untrue, deceptive
<br /> )r misleading, shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. The
<br /> words untrue, decept~ive and misleading," as used in this
<br /> section shall be construed as-including (a) the advertising
<br /> ,inlany manner by any person of any goods, wares or merchandise
<br /> as'a bankrupt stock, receiver's sto~k or trustee's stock, if
<br /> such stock contains any goods~ wares or-merchandise put therein
<br /> subsequent to the date of the purchase by such advertiser or
<br /> such stock-, and if such advertisement of any such stock fail
<br /> to set'forth the fact that such stock contains other goods
<br /> wares or merchandise put therein, subsequent to the date of
<br /> the purchase by-such advertiser of such stock 'in type as
<br /> large as the type used in any other part of such advertisement,
<br /> including the~caption of the same, it shall be a violation of
<br /> this section; and (b) the use of any writing or document which
<br /> appears to be,~but is not in fact a negotiable check, negotiable
<br /> draft or other negotiable instrument notwithstanding the fact
<br /> that its nonnegotiability is indicated on the writing or
<br /> ~document. ~
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