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<section article="gin" article_name="Insurance" number="14-415" title_number="14" title_name="Entities That Act as Health Insurers" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Dental Plan Organization Act">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A dental plan organization or its representative may not cause or knowingly allow:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>advertising that is untrue or misleading;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>solicitation that is untrue or misleading; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>any form of evidence of coverage that is deceptive.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Unless a dental plan organization holds a certificate of authority as an insurer, the dental plan organization may not use in its name, evidence of coverage, or literature:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the words “insurance”, “assurance”, “casualty”, “surety”, or “mutual”; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>any other words descriptive of the insurance, casualty, or surety business or deceptively similar to the name or description of an insurer authorized to do business in the State.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Commissioner shall enforce this section.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>This subtitle does not limit the powers of the Attorney General and the procedures with respect to consumer fraud.</text>
  </level>
</section>
