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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="14-4A-09" title_number="14" title_name="Miscellaneous Consumer Protection Provisions" subtitle_number="4A" subtitle_name="Vehicle Protection Products Act">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Unless authorized by the Maryland Insurance Commissioner to engage in the insurance business in the State, a warrantor may not use the following words in its name, contracts, or literature:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Insurance”;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Casualty”;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Surety”;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>“Mutual”; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Any other words that are:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Descriptive of the insurance, casualty, or surety business; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Deceptively similar to the name or description of an insurer, a surety corporation, or another warrantor.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A warrantor may use the term “guaranty” or a similar word in the warrantor’s name.</text>
  </level>
</section>
