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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>54663</law_id><section_number>38.2-503</section_number><catch_line>False information and advertising generally</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>38.2-3456</reference><reference>38.2-5103</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="38.2">Insurance</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="5">Unfair Trade Practices</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>No <span class="dictionary">person</span> shall knowingly make, publish, disseminate, circulate, or place before the public, or cause or knowingly allow, directly or indirectly, to be made, published, disseminated, circulated, or placed before the public in a newspaper, magazine or other publication, or in the form of a notice, circular, pamphlet, letter or poster, or over any radio or television station, or in any other way, an advertisement, announcement or statement containing any assertion, representation or statement relating to (i) the business of <span class="dictionary">insurance</span> or (ii) any <span class="dictionary">person</span> in the conduct of his <span class="dictionary">insurance</span> business, which is untrue, deceptive or misleading.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 38.1-52; 1952, c. 317, &#xA7; 38.1-52.2; 1977, c. 529; 1978, c. 441; 1979, c. 324; 1980, c. 404; 1986, c. 562.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
