HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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(1)   [endorse] ENDORSE upon [such] THE application the
date of its filing[, and];

(2)   [shall preserve the same] PRESERVE IT as a record
of office[, and shall make];

(3)  MAKE an abstract of the facts set forth in [such]
THE application[,]; and

(4)   [shall indicate] INDICATE whether the license was
granted or refused.

(d) False statements. Any person making a false statement
in the application [provided] for A CLOSING-OUT SALE [in this
section shall, upon conviction, be deemed] IS guilty of perjury.
(1961, ch. 804, sec. 167B; 1983, ch. 253.)

7-3. Special purchases.

(A)   [No person in) IN contemplation of a LICENSED
closing-out sale, [under a license as provided for in Section 7-2
shall] A PERSON MAY NOT order any goods, wares, or merchandise
for the purpose of selling and disposing of [the same] THEM at
such sale.

(B)   [, and any] ANY unusual purchase and additions to the
stock of such goods, wares, or merchandise within 60 days [prior
to] BEFORE the filing of application for a license to conduct
such sale shall be presumptive evidence that [such] THE purchases
and additions to stock were made in contemplation of [such] THE
sale. (1961, ch. 804, sec. 167C.)

7-4. Damaged goods.

(A)   [No] A person LICENSED FOR carrying on or conducting a
closing-out sale or a sale of goods, wares, or merchandise
damaged by fire, smoke, water, or otherwise[, under a license as
provided in Section 7-2 shall], during the continuance of [such]
THE sale, MAY NOT add any goods, wares, or merchandise to the
stock inventoried in his original application for [such] THE
license.

(B)   [, and no goods] GOODS, wares, or merchandise [shall]
MAY NOT be sold at or during [such] THE sale, excepting the
goods, wares, or merchandise described and inventoried in [such]
THE original application. (1961, ch. 804, sec. 167D.)

7-5. Termination date.

[No] A person [shall conduct] MAY NOT:

(1) CONDUCT a closing-out sale or a sale of goods,
wares, or merchandise damaged by fire, smoke, water, or otherwise
beyond the termination date specified for [such] THE sale, except