Section 131. Ownership of merchandise establishments and services to be publicly revealed and displayed  


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  • Every person, partnership, association
      or  corporation  owning  or  conducting  any  shop,   store   or   other
      establishment  or  service  wherein the sale of merchandise at retail or
      wholesale is carried on or transacted or a service  is  performed  as  a
      business  shall cause the true, full name, including the full first name
      or legally registered trade name or names of the proprietor or owner  or
      proprietors  or  owners  of  such  shop, store or other establishment or
      service to be publicly revealed and prominently and legibly displayed in
      the English language either upon a window of such shop, store  or  other
      establishment  or  place  where  a  service  is performed or upon a sign
      conspicuously placed upon the exterior of the  building  containing  the
      same. The foregoing provisions shall not apply to a person, partnership,
      association  or  corporation  operating under a lease, a department in a
      shop, store or other establishment or service  as  aforesaid  where  the
      lessor  of  such shop, store or other establishment or service is liable
      to customers for merchandise sold by and the operations of  such  leased
      department.  Failure to comply with the provisions of this section shall
      constitute a misdemeanor.