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# O.C.G.A. § 7-1-133. Prohibited advertising.

(a) No person or corporation doing business in this state shall advertise in or through any newspaper, radio, television, letters, circulars, billheads, or in any way or through any medium seeking to induce any person to purchase an instrument which is purported to be insured or guaranteed in a manner comparable to an insured deposit or share account in any financial institution authorized to have such deposits or accounts when in fact such instrument does not possess comparable insurance coverage as determined by the department. Whenever any person, firm, or corporation doing business in this state shall compare, in any such advertising media, an investment or a return on an investment, except an investment or return on an investment in the form of a deposit or share account, to a deposit or share account or a return on a deposit or share account in an authorized financial institution, it shall be clearly stated in such advertising or solicitation that the investment is not a deposit insured by a public body of the United States or of this state.

(b) No person or corporation shall use the terms “savings,” “savings account,” “deposit,” or “withdrawal” or any equivalent thereof in any advertisement as above described in subsection (a) of this Code section indicating reference to instruments issued by or to be issued by the person or corporation.

## History

Code 1933, § 13-204.2, enacted by Ga. L. 1973, p. 534, § 1; Code 1933, § 41A604, enacted by Ga. L. 1974, p. 705, § 1.

## Cross References

Duty of bank to post notice if deposit insurance maintained by bank is less than amounts insured by Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, § 7-1-244.

False advertising generally, § 10-1-420 et seq.