Section 22-214 - Electronic error: Consumer defenses. - Maryland Statutes

§ 22-214. Electronic error: Consumer defenses.
 

(a)  "Electronic error" defined.- In this section, "electronic error" means an error in an electronic message created by a consumer using an information processing system if a reasonable method to detect and correct or avoid the error was not provided. 

(b)  Consumer defenses.- In an automated transaction, a consumer is not bound by an electronic message that the consumer did not intend and which was caused by an electronic error, if the consumer: 

(1) Promptly on learning of the error: 

(A) Notifies the other party of the error; and 

(B) Causes delivery to the other party or, pursuant to reasonable instructions received from the other party, delivers to another person or destroys all copies of the information; and 

(2) Has not used, or received any benefit or value from, the information or caused the information or benefit to be made available to a third party. 

(c)  Applicability of other law.- If subsection (b) of this section does not apply, the effect of an electronic error is determined by other law. 
 

[2000, ch. 11.]