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SECTION 538-A
Enforcement
General Business (GBS) CHAPTER 20, ARTICLE 29-CC
§ 538-a. Enforcement. (a) The attorney general may bring a civil
action against any person, firm, corporation, or other business entity,
regardless of its form of organization, that violates this article to
enjoin the violation and may recover the following:

(1) a civil penalty of one thousand dollars per violation of this
article or, for a pattern or practice of such violations, up to three
thousand dollars per violation; and/or

(2) costs and reasonable attorneys' fees.

(c) Nothing in this section shall in any way limit rights or remedies
which are otherwise available under law to the attorney general or any
other person authorized to bring an action under this section.