Exemption from registration under the Transient Seller of Consumer Merchandise Act of vendors who sell at the annual antique show sponsored by the Junior League of Bangor

MAINE STATE LEGISLATURE The following document is provided by the LAW AND LEGISLATIVE DIGITAL LIBRARY at the Maine State Law and Legislative Reference Library http://legislature.maine.gov/lawlib Reproduced from scanned originals with text recognition applied (searchable text may contain some errors and/or omissions) Feb~uarJ 26, 1979 . senator Howard M. Trotzky state House Augusta, Maine 04333 Dear senator Trotzky: In response to your letter of February 12 in which you ask whether vendors who sell at the annual antique show sponsored by the Junior League of Bangor, a charitable organization., are exempt from registration under Section 32 M.R.s.A. § 4681(7) of the Transient seller of consumer Merchandise Act (32 M.R.S.A. § 4681 et seq.): The word "bazaar" which appears in saction 4681{7) id defined in 'Nebater's Third New International Dictiona1.-y {1% 1) to mean "a fair for the sale o:c useful and ornamental articles, especially for charitable or religious ends". From the facts yo~ have set out in your letter, it appear3 that the J'l .. mior League's antique show falls within this meaning of the word 11bazaar 11 • Therefore~ vendors at that show are exempt from registration. As the drafter and as a participant in the legislative hearing process which created this law, I believe the above construction to be consistent with the intent of the Legislature to not permit this law to encumber fund-raising sales conducted by local charitable organizations. cH/sn Yours truly, CHERYL HAR.>UNGTON Assistant Attorney General consumer and Antitrust Division