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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters 730 and 742 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1993 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 2 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 2002, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?021+ful+CHAP0747\">747<\/a>; in 2024, chapters <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0037\">37<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0150\">150<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1499239,"object_type":"law","relational_id":375445,"identifier":"63.2-1713","token":"63.2\/IV\/17\/1\/63.2-1713","url":"\/63.2-1713\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/63.2-1713\/","token":"63.2\/IV\/17\/1\/63.2-1713","dublin_core":{"Title":"Misleading advertising prohibited","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 63.2-1713","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>No <span class=\"dictionary\">assisted living facility<\/span>, <span class=\"dictionary\">adult day center<\/span>, or <span class=\"dictionary\">child<\/span> welfare agency 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 the 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 <span class=\"dictionary\">fact<\/span> that is untrue, deceptive, or misleading.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nMISLEADING ADVERTISING PROHIBITED (\u00a7 63.2-1713)\n\nNo assisted living facility, adult day center, or child welfare agency shall\nmake, publish, disseminate, circulate, or place before the public or cause,\ndirectly or indirectly, to be made, published, disseminated, circulated, or\nplaced before the public in the Commonwealth, in a newspaper or other\npublication; in the form of a book, notice, handbill, poster, blueprint, map,\nbill, tag, label, circular, pamphlet, or letter; or via electronic mail,\nwebsite, automatic mailing list services (listservs), newsgroups, facsimile,\nchat rooms; or in any other way an advertisement of any sort regarding services\nor anything so offered to the public, which advertisement contains any promise,\nassertion, representation, or statement of fact that is untrue, deceptive, or\nmisleading.\n\nHISTORY: 1993, cc. 730, 742, \u00a7 63.1-201.1; 2002, c. 747; 2024, cc. 37, 150.","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"}}