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Statutes > Maryland > Election-law > Title-13 > Subtitle-4 > 13-402§ 13-402. Advertising rates.
(a) In general.- Subject to subsection (b) of this section, a person publishing a newspaper or periodical in the State may not charge a candidate for State or local public office a rate for political advertising that exceeds the local rate regularly charged for commercial advertising by the person publishing that newspaper or periodical.
(b) Advertising or press agency.- If a candidate uses an advertising or press agency to place a political advertisement, the person publishing the newspaper or periodical may charge the national rate regularly charged by that newspaper or periodical for commercial advertising.
[An. Code 1957, art. 33, § 13-501(b); 2002, ch. 291, § 4.]
