Consumer Protection Act (CPA), codified as Maryland Code (1975, 2005 Repl.Vol.), Commercial Law Article, Title 13. We thus are required to decide whether the CPA governs the State’s conduct here. Whether the CPA governs the State’s conduct is a matter of statutory interpretation and a matter of first impression for the Court. The primary canon of statutory interpretation is to ascertain and effectuate the legislature’s intent. Comptroller of the Treasury v. Citicorp Int’l Communications, Inc., 389 Md. 156, 165-66, 884 A.2d 112 (2005); Rockwood Casualty Ins. Co. v. Uninsured Employers’ Fund, 385 Md. 99, 108, 867 A.2d 1026, 1031 (2005). We look first to the plain meaning of the language chosen by the Legislature. If the words of the statute are plain and u , 354 A.2d 817, 824 (1976) (<HOLDING>); State v. Milburn, 9 Gill. 105 (1850) (holding
holding that because a violation of a statute had no practical effect there was no concrete injury holding that the insurer had no duty to defend the insured because the allegations of the initial complaint did not allege facts which would bring the case within the coverage of the title insurance policy holding that the mass transit administration mta was not obligated to conform to the personal injury protection insurance coverage requirements imposed by statute because there was no manifest intention demonstrated on the part of the general assembly to include mta within the no fault insurance provisions and that if it had intended to include mta within those provisions it would have made a specific provision to that effect holding that there was no contract of insurance when the receipt provided that no offer of insurance within sixty days would be deemed a declination and the sixty days had passed prior to the loss explaining that the overwhelming weight of authority is to the effect that no inference or presumption of acceptance is to be drawn from mere delay in passing on the application holding that insurance company operating under a reservation of rights had the right and the duty to control the defense until such time as it was determined that it had no liability insurance coverage