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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>375445</law_id><section_number>63.2-1713</section_number><catch_line>Misleading advertising prohibited</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2026/" slug="2026" current="TRUE" last_updated="2026-08-02">2026</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="135" identifier="63.2">Welfare (Social Services)</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="4" identifier="IV">Licensure</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="17">Licensure and Registration Procedures</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">General Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<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></text><history>1993, cc. 730, 742, &#xA7; 63.1-201.1; 2002, c. 747; 2024, cc. 37, 150.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
