Fair Marketing Practices Sample Clauses

Fair Marketing Practices. An Aggregator or a salesperson of an Aggregator, when dealing with a Contributor or a prospective Contributor, shall:
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Fair Marketing Practices. 2.1.1 Nothing in or done under the authority of this Code affects the obligation of an electricity retailer and its salespersons to comply with legislation and regulations pertaining to marketing, advertising and business practices, including the Consumer Protection Act (Ontario), the Business Practices Act (Ontario) and the Competition Act (Canada). 2.1.2 An electricity retailer shall ensure that its salespersons adhere to the same standards required of the electricity retailer as set out in this Code. 2.1.3 An electricity retailer shall do the following when marketing or making an offer to a low-volume electricity consumer: (a) immediately and truthfully identify themselves to the consumer; (b) clearly indicate that the offer is not being made by a regulated distribution company, and not seek to mislead or otherwise create any confusion in the mind of a consumer about the identity of the marketer, its promotion campaigns or trade mark, or those of competitors or the regulated distribution company; (c) not exert undue pressure on a consumer; (d) provide sufficient time for a consumer to read thoughtfully and without harassment all documents provided; (e) not make any representation or statement or give any answer or take any measure that is false or is likely to mislead a consumer with regard to any term in an offer; (f) provide only timely, accurate, verifiable and truthful comparisons; (g) not make any verbal representations regarding contracts, rights or obligations unless those representations are contained in the written offer; (h) ensure all descriptions and promises made in promotional material are in accordance with actual conditions, situations and circumstances; (i) not use print that due to its size or other visual characteristics, is likely to impair materially the legibility or clarity of documents provided to consumers. 2.1.3 An electricity retailer shall not request a distributor to allow the electricity retailer to supply electricity to a consumer unless the electricity retailer has the permission of the consumer in writing to do so. 2.1.4 Where an electricity retailer’s marketing or advertising contains representations concerning the nature, quality and price of any distributor’s service, the electricity retailer shall take such steps as are reasonable and appropriate to ensure that such representations are accurate and fair.

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  • Hiring Practices The Board shall, in all instances, employ teachers who are properly credentialed in accordance with applicable state laws, Washington Administrative Code, and by such other requirements as specified by the Office of the State Superintendent of Public Education. Classified personnel shall not be assigned to perform work in the instructional setting which will replace a currently employed certificated employee in his assignment or employment.

  • Accounting Practice Except as otherwise provided herein, all Mortgage Loan account records must be maintained according to (a) the Uniform Single Attestation Program for Mortgage Bankers and (b) where applicable, sound and generally accepted accounting practices.

  • FAIR PRACTICES The Union agrees to maintain its eligibility to represent all employees by continuing to admit persons to membership without discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, sex or marital status and to represent equally all employees without regard to membership or participation in, or association with the activities of any employee organization. The Board agrees to continue its policy of not discriminating against any employee on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, sex, marital status or membership or participation in, or association with the activities of, any employee organization.

  • Accounting Practices All matters concerning this FuturesAccess Fund’s accounting practices shall be determined by the Sponsor on a fair and equitable basis, and all such determinations shall be final and conclusive as to all Investors. However, the Sponsor shall be under no obligation whatsoever to make any deviations from the allocations set forth in this Article II. In reporting Net Asset Values to Investors and third parties on an interim basis, the Sponsor shall be entitled to accrue fees and payments due at the end of a period as if such fees or payments were due (on a pro rata basis, if appropriate) as of the end of an interim period within such period.

  • Practices The practices used or to be used by the Servicer, to monitor collections with respect to the Trust Property and repossess and dispose of the Financed Vehicles related to the Trust Property will be, in all material respects, in conformity with the requirements of all applicable federal and State laws, rules and regulations, and this Agreement. The Servicer is in possession of all State and local licenses (including all debt collection licenses) required for it to perform its services hereunder, and none of such licenses has been suspended, revoked or terminated, except where the failure to have such licenses would not be reasonably likely to have material adverse effect on its ability to service the Loans or Contracts or on the interest of the Indenture Trustee, the Trust Collateral Agent or the Noteholders.

  • Tax Accounting Practices (a) Except as provided in Section 3.03(b), any Tax Return for any Pre-Distribution Tax Period, to the extent it relates to members of the Dealer Group, shall be prepared in accordance with practices, accounting methods, elections, conventions and Tax positions used with respect to the Tax Return in question for periods prior to the Distribution (“Past Practices”), and, in the case of any item the treatment of which is not addressed by Past Practices, in accordance with generally acceptable Tax accounting practices. Notwithstanding the foregoing, for any Tax Return described in the preceding sentence, (i) a Party will not be required to follow Past Practices with either the written consent of the other Party (not to be unreasonably withheld) or a “should” level opinion from a Tax Advisor that the proposed method of reporting is correct and (ii) ADP shall have the right to determine which entities will be included in any consolidated, combined, affiliated or unitary Return that it is responsible for filing. (b) The Parties shall report the Transactions for all Tax purposes in a manner consistent with the Tax Opinions/Rulings, unless, and only to the extent, an alternative position is required pursuant to a Final Determination. ADP shall determine the Tax treatment to be reported on any Tax Return of any Tax issue relating to the Transactions that is not covered by the Tax Opinions/Rulings.

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  • Personnel Practices Section 1. The parties agree to establish a Labor-Management Committee to consult on personnel practices. The Committee will consist of five (5) representatives selected by the County and five (5) representatives by the SEIU Local 721. The Chief Executive Officer will designate a representative from CEO/Employee Relations and Department of Human Resources who have authority to resolve issues. The Committee will meet quarterly and consult on County-wide personnel practices including, but not limited to, performance evaluations, appraisals of promotability, grievance, arbitration, appeal processes, and resolution and payment of awards. Section 2. Dignity and Professionalism in the Workplace 1. The Union and Management are committed to working together to ensure a healthy and professional work environment free from emotional and psychological abuse and intimidation and to promote dignity for all workforce members. 2. The Union and Management agree to work together to develop a training program open to managers and SEIU Local 721 represented employees through the Workforce Development Program, the Million Dollar Training Fund and/or other sources of funding designated to promote dignity, prevent and reduce intimidation and other forms of emotional and psychological abuse in the workplace and create awareness of its negative impact. 3. Labor and Management are committed to working together to address complaints of intimidation and other forms of emotional and psychological abuse in the workplace in a timely manner. 4. The County Department of Human Resources is committed to working with the Union to develop policy to promote dignity and respect at the workplace and to prevent intimidation and other forms of emotional and psychological abuse in the workplace. Section 3. Communication through County E-mail Recognizing that e-mail is a standard medium of business communication, the County will meet with representatives of the Union to consider the feasibility of communication with bargaining unit members through their County e-mail addresses. This workgroup will complete its work within 60 days of the Board of Supervisors’ approval of the MOU. The workgroup will present recommendations to the Board of Supervisors for any policy changes. Section 4. Education Based Discipline Education-Based Discipline (EBD) is offered when an employee must serve a suspension from duty as a result of some type of policy violation, but rather than serving the suspension days at home with a loss of pay, some or all of those days can be substituted for a relevant training class or classes. Participation in the program is voluntary for the employee. The Personnel Practices Committee defined in Section 1 will meet to discuss expansion of EBD to all departments in the County.

  • SAFETY PRACTICES (a) i Employees requiring glasses must wear glasses, preferably with safety lenses instead of contact lenses while on the job site. ii W.C.B. approved safety footwear must be worn at all times while on the job site. iii Employee attire will be in conformance with W.C.B. Regulation and the Employer’s policy.

  • Financial Accounting Practices The Borrower shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, make and keep books, records and accounts which, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect its transactions and dispositions of its assets and maintain a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurances that (a) transactions are executed in accordance with management's general or specific authorization, (b) transactions are recorded as necessary (i) to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP and (ii) to maintain accountability for assets, (c) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management's general or specific authorization and (d) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences.

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