Section 158. Prohibited practices by travel consultants  


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  • It shall be illegal
      for   any  travel  consultant  and,  if  such  travel  consultant  is  a
      corporation, any officer or director thereof, to engage in any or all of
      the following enumerated practices:
        1. Knowingly misrepresent the quality or kind of service, type or size
      of aircraft, vehicle, ship or  train,  time  of  departure  or  arrival,
      points  served,  route  to  be  traveled,  stops  to  be  made, or total
      trip-time from point of  departure  to  destination  or  other  services
      available,  reserved  or  contracted  for in connection with any trip or
      tour.
        2. Knowingly misrepresent the fares and charges for transportation  or
      services in connection therewith.
        3.   Knowingly   advertise   or  otherwise  offer  for  sale  or  sell
      transportation or services in connection  therewith  at  less  than  the
      rates, fares and charges specified in the currently effective tariffs of
      the  carrier, who is engaged to provide such transportation or services,
      or knowingly offer or give rebates  or  other  concessions  thereon,  or
      knowingly   assist  or  permit  a  person  or  persons  to  obtain  such
      transportation or services at less than such  lawful  rates,  fares  and
      charges.
        4. Knowingly misrepresent that special priorities for reservations are
      available  when  such  special considerations are not in fact granted to
      members of the public generally.
        5.  Knowingly  sell  transportation  to  a  person  or  persons  on  a
      reservation  or  charter  basis  for  specified space, flight or time or
      knowingly represent that such definite reservation or charter is or will
      be available or has been arranged, without a binding commitment  with  a
      carrier  for  the  furnishing of such definite reservation or charter as
      represented or sold.
        6. Knowingly sell or issue tickets or other documents to passengers to
      be exchanged or  used  for  transportation  if  such  tickets  or  other
      documents  will  not  be  or  cannot  be legally honored by carriers for
      transportation.
        7. Knowingly misrepresent the requirements  that  must  be  met  by  a
      person or persons in order to qualify for charter or group fare rates.