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<section article="gtr" article_name="Transportation" number="18-107" title_number="18" title_name="Vehicle Laws -- For-Rent Vehicles" subtitle_number="1">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A person who rents a motor vehicle to a consumer shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Compute the daily rental rate based on a 24–hour period, starting at the time the rental begins;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Make a notation on the rental agreement of the time the rental begins; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Inform the consumer that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The daily rental fee is based on a 24–hour period; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The time the rental begins is noted on the rental agreement.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>This section does not apply if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>A person rents a motor vehicle to a consumer; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The rental vehicle is:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>A temporary substitute for a vehicle that is out of service because of breakdown, repair, servicing, loss, or destruction; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Covered as a temporary substitute vehicle under the consumer’s comprehensive and collision coverage.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Regardless of whether a consumer complies with a requirement by a rental company to notify the rental company in advance of intent to return the vehicle, the rental company may not charge for the use of a rental vehicle after the vehicle has been returned.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If a rental agreement requires the consumer to notify the rental company in advance of intent to return the vehicle, the rental company shall make the following written disclosure to the consumer in at least 10 point type:</text>
      <text>“Regardless of whether you comply with a requirement by the rental company to notify the rental company in advance of your intent to return the vehicle, the rental company may not charge for the use of the rental vehicle after you have returned the vehicle.”</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>In addition to any remedies otherwise available at law, a violation of this section shall be an unfair or deceptive trade practice under Title 13, Subtitle 3 of the Commercial Law Article.</text>
  </level>
</section>
