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CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR THE RETAIL TRADE

To effectuate the policies of Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act the following provisions are established as a Code of Fair Competition for the Retail Trade.

ARTICLE I. APPLICATION OF CODE

SECTION 1. Application of Code.——The provisions of this Code, except such provisions as are included in Schedule A annexed hereto and in such other schedules as may be subsequently be approved and annexed hereto, and except as hereinafter specifically provided, shall apply to all retailers and/or retail establishments as are specifically included within the provisions of such schedules.

SECTION 2. Request for separate Code.--Any division of the retail trade which has not participated in the formation or establishment of this Code may make application to the Administrator to operate under a separate Code of Fair Competition. the administrator shall determine whether such division of the retail trade shall operate under this Code or under a separate Code, and may, if justice requires, stay the application of this Code to such division pending his decision or pending his decision or pending the approval by the President of the United States of a Code of Fair Competition for such division.

ARTICLE II. DEFINITIONS 

SECTION 1. Retail trade.——The term "retail trade" as used herein shall mean all selling of merchandise to the consumer and not for purposes of resale in any form, in the continental United States excluding the Panama Canal Zone. It is provided, however, that the term shall not include the selling at retail of milk and its products, tobacco and its products, and foods and foodstuffs, or the dispensing of drugs, medicines, and medical supplies by a physician, dentist, surgeon or veterinarian in the legitimate practice of his profession; and it is further provided that the term shall not include and division of retail selling (except the selling of drugs and allied products) which is now or may hereafter be governed by a separate Code of Fair Competition approved by the President of the United States.

SECTION 2. Retailer.——The term "retailer" as used herein shall mean any individual or organization engaged wholly or partially in the retail trade. 
SECTION 3. Establishment.--The term "establishment" as used herein shall mean any store or department of a store, shop, stand,

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