Section 13-402 - Advertising rates. - Maryland Statutes

§ 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.]