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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="14-1321" title_number="14" title_name="Miscellaneous Consumer Protection Provisions" subtitle_number="13" subtitle_name="Miscellaneous Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Account” means:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>A credit card account;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A debit card account;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>A bank account; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>Any other financial account.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Consumer goods” has the meaning stated in § 13–101 of this article.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>“Consumer services” has the meaning stated in § 13–101 of this article.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>“Merchant” has the meaning stated in § 13–101 of this article.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A merchant that provides consumer goods or consumer services over the Internet under a contract with a consumer that requires the consumer to make periodic payments for the consumer goods or consumer services and allows the merchant to collect the payments directly from the consumer’s account shall include in a prominent place on its website:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>A toll–free telephone number that a consumer may call to cancel the contract; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>An address to which a consumer may write to cancel the contract.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A violation of this section is:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>An unfair or deceptive trade practice within the meaning of Title 13 of this article; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Subject to the enforcement and penalty provisions contained in Title 13 of this article.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
