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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="12-502" title_number="12" title_name="Credit Regulations" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Retail Credit Accounts">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Each retail credit account established after May 31, 1967 shall comply with this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Notwithstanding any situs of contract specified in it, a retail credit account is made in this State and is subject to this subtitle if:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The seller offers or agrees in this State to sell to a resident buyer of this State; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The resident buyer of this State accepts or makes the offer in this State to buy.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A verbal or written solicitation or communication to sell that originates outside the State but that is forwarded to and received in the State by a resident buyer of this State shall be construed as an offer or agreement to sell in this State.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A verbal or written solicitation to buy that originates in this State from a resident buyer of this State and that is forwarded to and received by a retail seller outside this State shall be construed as an acceptance or offer to buy in this State.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>This subtitle does not apply to an installment sale agreement, as defined in § 12-601 of this title, relating to goods, as defined in that section, regardless of the cash sale price of the goods.</text>
  </level>
</section>
