Article 153. Private entrepreneurial activity and activity as a commercial middlemen
Private entrepreneurial activity with the utilization of state, cooperative, or other social forms—
- shall be punishable by deprivation of freedom for a period not to exceed five years, with confiscation of property, or by exile for a period not to exceed five years, with confiscation of property.
Activity as a commercial middleman carried on by private persons in the form of a business, or with a view to acquiring riches—
- shall be punishable by deprivation of freedom for a period not to exceed three years, with confiscation of property, or by exile for a period not to exceed three years, with confiscation of property.
Article 154. Speculation
Speculation; that is, the buying up and resale of commodities or other objects for the purpose of making profits—
- shall be punishable by deprivation of freedom for a period not to exceed two years, with or without confiscation of property, or by corrective labor for a period not to exceed one your, or by a fine not to exceed 3,000 rubles.
Speculation in the form of a business, or of a large scale—
- shall be punishable by deprivation of freedom for a period of from two to seven years, with confiscation of property.
Small-scale speculation committed as a second offense—
- shall be punishable by corrective labor for a period not to exceed one year, or by a fine not to exceed 25000 rubles, with confiscation of the objects of speculation.
Article 155. Illegal use of trademarks
The illegal use of trademarks belonging to others—
- shall be punishable by corrective labor for a period not to exceed six months, or by a fine not to exceed 3,000 rubles.
Article 156. Defrauding purchasers
False measuring, false weighting, the marking up of established retail prices, false reckoning, or other defrauding of purchasers at stores or other trading enterprises, or at enterprises serving food to the public—
- shall be punishable by deprivation of freedom for a period not to exceed two years, or by corrective labor for a period not to
