"Sale" means:

    A.    Any sale of or any offer to sell to the public or any group thereof, goods, wares or merchandise on order, in transit or in stock in connection with a declared purpose as set forth by advertising such sale is anticipatory to or for the purposes of termination, liquidation, revision, windup, anticipatory  removal, dissolution or abandonment of the business or that portion of the business conducted to any location; or

    B.    All sales advertised in any manner calculated to convey to the public the belief that upon the disposal of the goods to be placed on sale the business or that portion thereof being conducted at any location will cease, be removed, interrupted, discontinued or changed; or

    C.    "All sales advertised to be adjuster's sale," "assignee's sale," "administrator's sale," closing sale," "going-out-of-business sale," "insurance salvage sale," "last days sale," "lease expires sale," "liquidation sale," "removal sale," "reorganization sale," "quitting business sale," "we quit sale," "wholesale closing out sale," "fixtures for sale," or advertised by any other expression or characterization of phrase of like or similar language which could reasonably convey to the public that the sale is being conducted as a result of such occurrences as enumerated herein, which are not intended to be all inclusive, but rather to type of class of sale. (Prior code § 11-04-052)