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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="13-303" title_number="13" title_name="Consumer Protection Act" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Unfair, Abusive, or Deceptive Trade Practices">
  <text>A person may not engage in any unfair, abusive, or deceptive trade practice, as defined in this subtitle or as further defined by the Division, in:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>The sale, lease, rental, loan, or bailment of any consumer goods, consumer realty, or consumer services;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>The offer for sale, lease, rental, loan, or bailment of consumer goods, consumer realty, or consumer services;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="3">
    <text>The offer for sale of course credit or other educational services;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="4">
    <text>The extension of consumer credit;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="5">
    <text>The collection of consumer debts; or</text>
  </level>
  <level label="6">
    <text>The purchase or offer for purchase of consumer goods or consumer realty from a consumer by a merchant whose business includes paying off consumer debt in connection with the purchase of any consumer goods or consumer realty from a consumer.</text>
  </level>
</section>
