Sec. 11-4C. Gasoline Stations – Accurate Signage Required.

   (a)   For purposes of this section, the following terms have the meanings indicated.

      (1)   Business Regulation Article means the Business Regulation Article of the Maryland Code, as amended.

      (2)   Credit price means the highest total amount, including any fees, payable to a gas station by a customer using a credit card or other non-cash form of payment, for one whole measurement unit of regular gasoline sold on the premises.

      (3)   Gasoline station means a merchant who sells motor fuel at retail under Section 10-315 of the Business Regulation Article.

   (b)   A gasoline station must:

      (1)   comply with Section 10-315 of the Business Regulation Article; and

      (2)   if the gas station posts a sign under Section 10-315(e) of the Business Regulation Article, include within the sign additional pricing information required under subsection (c) of this Section.

   (c)   A sign posted by a gas station under Section 10-315(e)(2) of the Business Regulation Article must include the credit price.

   (d)   If the lowest price under the Business Regulation Article and the credit price are the same, subsection (c) does not apply.

   (e)   Alternative method of compliance - subject to sunset.

      (1)   This subsection must sunset and must have no further effect 7 years after this Section takes effect.

      (2)   Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section, a gas station may satisfy the requirements of subsections (b) and (c) of this Section if it posts, on a sign visible to motorists and separate from the sign required under Section 10-315(e) of the Business Regulation Article, the credit price.

   (3)   If a gas station posts the credit price under paragraph (2) of this subsection, the letters and numerals on the separate sign must appear in the same size and font as those used on the sign posted under Section 10-315(e) of the Business Regulation Article. (2023 L.M.C., ch. 11, § 1.)

   Editor’s note—2023 L.M.C., ch. 11 , § 3, states: Subsection (e) of Section 11-4C, added under Section 1 of this Act, must sunset and must have no further effect 7 years after this Act takes effect.