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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 4-2 Practices generally prohibited.">
  <section prefix="§" num="4-2" heading="Practices generally prohibited.">
    <text>In Baltimore City, a person may not engage in any unfair, abusive, or deceptive trade practice in:</text>
    <para num="(1)">the sale, lease, rental, loan, or bailment of any:<para num="(i)">consumer good;</para>
      <para num="(ii)">consumer realty; or</para>
      <para num="(iii)">consumer service;</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(2)">the offer for sale, lease, rental, loan, or bailment of any:<para num="(i)">consumer good;</para>
      <para num="(ii)">consumer realty; or</para>
      <para num="(iii)">consumer service;</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(3)">the offer for sale of course credit or other educational services;</para>
    <para num="(4)">the extension of consumer credit;</para>
    <para num="(5)">the collection of a consumer debt; or</para>
    <para num="(6)">the purchase or offer for purchase of a consumer good or consumer realty from a consumer, by a merchant whose business includes paying off consumer debt in connection with the purchase of any consumer good or consumer realty from a consumer.</para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 23-266</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
