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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>354694</law_id><section_number>22.1-289.028</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="60" identifier="22.1">Education</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="17" identifier="14.1">Early Childhood Care and Education</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="3" identifier="3">Licensure</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>No <span class="dictionary">child day program</span> or <span class="dictionary">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 <span class="dictionary">fact</span> that is untrue, deceptive, or misleading.</p></section></text><history>2020, cc. 860, 861.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
