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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>65091</law_id><section_number>6.2-2218</section_number><catch_line>Advertising</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="6.2">Financial Institutions and Services</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="III">Other Regulated Providers of Financial Services</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="22">Motor Vehicle Title Loans</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> No <span class="dictionary">person</span> licensed or required to be licensed under this chapter shall use or cause to be published any advertisement that (i) contains any false, misleading, or deceptive statement or representation or (ii) identifies the <span class="dictionary">person</span> by any name other than the name set forth on the license issued by the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>. <a id="paragraph-236894" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-2218/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Any advertising <span class="dictionary">materials</span> used to promote the price, cost, or <span class="dictionary">interest</span> rate of <span class="dictionary">motor vehicle title loans</span> shall disclose the amount of any minimum monthly payments and a statement of finance charges, expressed as an <span class="dictionary">annual percentage rate</span>, payable using as an example a $1,000 loan that is repaid over a 12-month period. In any print media advertisement, including any web page, used to promote <span class="dictionary">motor vehicle title loans</span>, the disclosure shall be <span class="dictionary">conspicuous</span>. &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Conspicuous</span>&#x201D; shall have the meaning set forth in subdivision (a) (14) of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/59.1-501.2/">59.1-501.2</a>. If a single advertisement consists of multiple pages, folds, or faces, the disclosure requirement applies only to one page, fold, or face. In a television advertisement used to promote <span class="dictionary">motor vehicle title loans</span>, the visual disclosure legend shall include 20 scan lines in size. In a radio advertisement or advertisement communicated by telephone used to promote <span class="dictionary">motor vehicle title loans</span>, the <span class="dictionary">disclosure statement</span> shall last at least two seconds and the statement shall be spoken so that its contents may be easily understood. <a id="paragraph-236895" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-2218/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2010, c. 477, &#xA7; 6.1-498.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
