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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="11-704.1" title_number="11" title_name="Trade Regulation" subtitle_number="7" subtitle_name="False Advertising">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>“Local telephone classified advertising directory” means a telephone directory that:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>Contains classified advertisements; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>Is distributed free of charge to residents in the State.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>“Local telephone classified advertising directory” includes a directory distributed by a person other than a telephone company.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <level label="i">
        <text>“Local telephone directory” means a telephone directory that is:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>Available free of charge to telephone subscribers in an area of the State; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>Does not contain classified advertisements.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>“Local telephone directory” includes a directory distributed by a person other than a telephone company.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>“Location” means any part of the address of a person, including the street, the city, or the state.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>This section applies only to business telephone listings and advertisements.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>This section does not apply to any bank, trust company, savings bank, savings and loan association, or credit union incorporated or chartered under the laws of this State or the United States or any other state bank having a branch in this State.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A person is in violation of § 11–703 of this subtitle if the person:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Causes to be published in a local telephone classified advertising directory an advertisement that misrepresents the location of the person; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Causes to be listed in a local telephone directory a telephone listing that misrepresents the location of the person.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>For purposes of this subsection, a person commits a separate violation for each edition of a local telephone directory or local telephone advertising directory in which the advertisement or telephone listing is published.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
