others or a commodity.
"Trade or commerce." All economic activity involving or
relating to any commodity or service.
§ 904. Prohibited acts.
The following acts are prohibited:
(1) To contract, combine or conspire in restraint of
trade or commerce.
(2) To contract, combine or conspire to establish a
minimum price below which a retailer, wholesaler or
distributor may not sell a commodity or service.
(3) To monopolize, attempt to monopolize or combine or
conspire with any other person or persons to monopolize any
part of trade or commerce.
(4) To acquire, directly or indirectly, the whole or any
part of the stock or other share, capital or assets of any
other person or persons where the effect of the acquisition
may be to lessen competition substantially or to tend to
create a monopoly in any line of trade or commerce.
§ 905. Powers and duties of Attorney General.
(a) Civil action.--The Attorney General may bring a civil
action in the Commonwealth's proprietary capacity on behalf of
the Commonwealth, as parens patriae on behalf of any agency,
political subdivision or municipal authority or as parens
patriae on behalf of natural persons residing in this
Commonwealth to recover threefold the actual damages and the
costs of the suit, including reasonable attorney fees, for any
violation of section 904 (relating to prohibited acts).
(b) Limitation of actions.--A civil action for damages for a
violation of section 904 must be commenced within four years
after the accrual of a cause of action, except that no statute
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