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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="14-2902" title_number="14" title_name="Miscellaneous Consumer Protection Provisions" subtitle_number="29" subtitle_name="False Advertising and Related Crimes">
  <level label="a">
    <text>For the purpose of purchasing, selling, or disposing of property or a service, a person may not advertise a statement containing a representation of fact that the person knows, or by the exercise of reasonable care should know, to be untrue, deceptive, or misleading.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A person may not offer for sale repossessed, reconditioned, rebuilt, or secondhand property, knowing the property to be repossessed, reconditioned, rebuilt, or secondhand, unless:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The property is identified clearly as repossessed, reconditioned, rebuilt, or secondhand; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The circumstances of the sale make it clear to a reasonable purchaser that the property is repossessed, reconditioned, rebuilt, or secondhand.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A person may not knowingly advertise for sale property or a service that the person does not possess or control for the purpose of inducing or increasing the sale of other property or service that the person possesses or controls.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A person who issues, sells, or offers to sell a passenger ticket to board a vessel may not omit reference to the country of registry of the vessel in any advertisement or any other similar printed paper or notice, written or oral, regarding:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The voyage or the ticket that entitles or purports to entitle its owner, purchaser, or holder to the voyage;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The vessel for which the voyage is sold or offered;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>The line that the vessel is part of; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>If applicable, that the person is an agent for the line or vessel.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Reference in a printed advertisement to the country of registry of the vessel shall be no less prominently displayed than the balance of the material appearing in the advertisement.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>A person may not advertise for sale property subject to a ground rent at a stated price or on terms stating the amount of any installment payments without also stating the amount of the annual ground rent for the property.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>A person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to imprisonment not exceeding 1 year or a fine not exceeding $1,000 or both.</text>
  </level>
</section>
