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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="14-3704" title_number="14" title_name="Miscellaneous Consumer Protection Provisions" subtitle_number="37" subtitle_name="Online Child Safety Act">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Subject to paragraph (2) of this subsection, an Internet access provider shall make a parental control that satisfies the requirements of this section available to each subscriber in the State.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Internet access provider may not be required to provide a parental control that is not reasonably and commercially available for the technology that the subscriber uses to obtain access to the Internet.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A parental control shall allow the subscriber, in a commercially reasonable manner, to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Block all access to the Internet; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>Block a child’s access to websites by specifying prohibited websites or by selecting a category of sites to block;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Restrict a child’s access exclusively to websites that the subscriber approves or a category of websites that the subscriber approves;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Restrict a child’s access to websites that the parental control provider designates; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>Monitor a child’s use of the Internet by providing a report to the subscriber indicating:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>Each specific website that the child has attempted to visit but was unable to view because the subscriber blocked or restricted access to the website; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>Each specific website that the child has visited.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
