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C.__"Necessities" includes food for human or animal | consumption; pharmaceutical products, including prescription | medications; wearing apparel; shoes; building materials; gas | and electricity for light, heat and power; ice; fuel of all | kinds; and fertilizer and fertilizer ingredients; together | with tools, utensils, implements, machinery and equipment | required for the actual production or manufacture of the same.__ | "Necessities" includes any other vital or necessary good or | service except those: |
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| (1)__Subject to continuous maximum price regulation | under the provisions of any state or federal law; |
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| (2)__As to which the State's authority is preempted; or |
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| (3)__Furnished or provided by: |
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| (b)__Nonprofit hospitals, medical service | organizations or health maintenance organizations | authorized to transact business within the State | pursuant to Title 24 and Title 24-A. |
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| D.__"Unconscionable price" means a price that is actionable | under this section.__There is a rebuttable presumption that | a price is unconscionable when it exceeds by more than 15% | the sum of: |
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| (1)__The price at which similar goods or services were | offered for sale or sold by that person immediately | prior to the beginning date of the abnormal market | disruption.__If that person did not offer such goods or | services immediately prior to the abnormal market | disruption, then the price is the price at which | similar goods or services were offered for sale or sold | by another person similarly situated prior to the | abnormal market disruption; and |
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| (2)__The increased cost calculated according to the | method used by that person prior to the abnormal market | disruption. |
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| | 2.__Declaration.__ Whenever it appears upon due inquiry and | consultation with the Attorney General that an abnormal market | disruption exists or that there is a substantial likelihood that | an abnormal market disruption is imminent, the Governor may, in | the Governor's sole discretion and after considering whether the | declaration of an abnormal market disruption itself will disrupt |
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