§47-11A-3. When rebates and special privileges prohibited;
penalty.
The secret payment or allowance of rebates, refunds,
commissions, or unearned discounts, whether in the form of money
or otherwise, or secretly extending to certain purchasers special
services or privileges not extended to all purchasers purchasing
upon like terms and conditions, to the injury of a competitor and
where such payment or allowance tends to destroy competition, is
an unfair trade practice and any person, partnership, firm,
corporation, joint-stock company, or other association resorting
to such trade practice shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor
and on conviction thereof shall be subject to the penalties set
out in section eleven of this article.