§ 551.1

551.1 Unfair discrimination in sales. Any person, firm, company, association, or corporation, foreign or domestic, doing business in the state, and engaged in the production, manufacture, sale, or distribution ofany commodity of commerce or commercial services excepting those, the rate of which isnow subject to control of cities or other governmental agency, that shall, for the purpose ofdestroying the business of a competitor in any locality or creating a monopoly, discriminatebetween different sections, localities, communities or cities of this state, by selling suchcommodity or commercial services excepting those, the rate of which is now subject tocontrol of cities or other governmental agency at a lower price or rate in one section, locality,community or city than such commodity or commercial services excepting those, the rateof which is now subject to control of cities or other governmental agency is sold for by saidperson, firm, association, company, or corporation, in another section, locality, communityor city, after making due allowance in case of telephone service for the difference in the costof furnishing service in different localities, and in the case of commodities

ection, locality, communityor city, after making due allowance in case of telephone service for the difference in the costof furnishing service in different localities, and in the case of commodities and commercialservices other than telephone service, for the difference, if any, in the grade or quality, and inthe actual cost of transportation from the point of production or purchase, if a raw product,or from the point of manufacture, if a manufactured product, to a place of sale, storage, ordistribution shall be deemed guilty of unfair discrimination, which is hereby prohibited anddeclared to be unlawful; provided, however, that prices made to meet competition in suchsection, locality, community or city shall not be in violation of this section. [S13, §5028-b; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §9885; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §551.1] Referred to in §551.4, 551.5, 551.6, 551.7, 551.8, 551.9 Sat Dec 23 01:48:11 2023 Iowa Code 2024, Section 551.1 (15, 0)