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No child day program<\/span> or family day system<\/span> shall make, publish, disseminate, circulate, or place before the public or cause, directly or indirectly, to be made, published, disseminated, circulated or placed before the public in this Commonwealth, in a newspaper or other publication; in the form of a book, notice, handbill, poster, blueprint, map, bill, tag, label, circular, pamphlet, or letter; or via electronic mail, website, automatic mailing list services (listservs), newsgroups, facsimile, chat rooms; or in any other way an advertisement of any sort regarding services or anything so offered to the public, which advertisement contains any promise, assertion, representation or statement of fact<\/span> that is untrue, deceptive, or misleading.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nMISLEADING ADVERTISING PROHIBITED (\u00a7 22.1-289.028)\n\nNo child day program or family day system shall make, publish, disseminate,\ncirculate, or place before the public or cause, directly or indirectly, to be\nmade, published, disseminated, circulated or placed before the public in this\nCommonwealth, in a newspaper or other publication; in the form of a book,\nnotice, handbill, poster, blueprint, map, bill, tag, label, circular, pamphlet,\nor letter; or via electronic mail, website, automatic mailing list services\n(listservs), newsgroups, facsimile, chat rooms; or in any other way an\nadvertisement of any sort regarding services or anything so offered to the\npublic, which advertisement contains any promise, assertion, representation or\nstatement of fact that is untrue, deceptive, or misleading.\n\nHISTORY: 2020, cc. 860, 861.","edition":{"id":2,"name":"2026","slug":"2026","date_created":"2026-07-16 18:40:23","date_modified":"2026-08-02 15:14:36","current":1,"order_by":2,"last_import":"2026-08-02 12:37:30"}}