§ 56:6-19 — Legislative declaration of policy

(a) It is hereby declared that: The methods and practices of the distribution and sale of motor fuels in this State have developed unfair methods of competition in the marketing of motor fuels; such conditions have produced waste harmful to the public and impaired the sale and distribution of motor fuel; that such conditions have caused unfair methods of competition in the industry resulting in the impairment of the supply of motor fuel needed by the general public and thereby affecting the general economic welfare of the people of this State. (b) These conditions vitally concern the health, safety and general economic welfare of the people of this State. (c) The distribution and sale of motor fuels within this State is hereby declared to be affected with a public interest. The provisions of this article are enacted in the exercise of the police powers of this State for the purpose of protecting the health, safety and general welfare of the people of this State. L.1953, c. 413, p. 2072, s. 1.