§ 13-303. Practices generally prohibited

   A person may not engage in any unfair or deceptive trade practice, as defined in this subtitle or as further defined by the Division, in:

   (1) The sale, lease, rental, loan, or bailment of any consumer goods, consumer realty, or consumer services;

   (2) The offer for sale, lease, rental, loan, or bailment of consumer goods, consumer realty, or consumer services;

   (3) The offer for sale of course credit or other educational services;

   (4) The extension of consumer credit;

   (5) The collection of consumer debts; or

   (6) The purchase or offer for purchase of consumer goods or consumer realty from a consumer by a merchant whose business includes paying off consumer debt in connection with the purchase of any consumer goods or consumer realty from a consumer.

HISTORY: An. Code 1957, art. 83, § 20D; 1975, ch. 49, § 3; 1976, ch. 907; 2011, ch. 277, § 1; chs. 416, 417.