§ 714B.10 — Exemptions

Iowa § 714B.10

• Jurisdiction: Iowa
• Title XVI: CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE
• Ch. 714B: PRIZE PROMOTIONS

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This chapter does not apply to the following:
1. Advertising by sponsors registered pursuant to chapter 557B, licensed pursuant to
chapter 99B, or regulated pursuant to chapter 99D, 99E, 99F, or 99G.
2. Advertising in connection with the sale or purchase of books, recordings,
videocassettes, periodicals, and similar goods through a membership group or club which is
regulated by the federal trade commission pursuant to 16 C.F.R. §425.1, concerning use of
negative option plans by sellers in commerce.
3. Advertising in connection with the sale or purchase of goods ordered through a
contractual plan or arrangement such as a continuity plan, subscription arrangement, or a
single sale or purchase series arrangement under which the seller ships goods to a consumer
who has consented in advance to receive the goods and who, after the receipt of the goods,
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is given an opportunity to examine the goods and to receive a full refund of charges for the
goods upon return of the goods undamaged.
4. Advertising in connection with sales by a catalog seller. For purposes of this section,
“catalog seller” means a person at least fifty percent of whose annual revenues are derived
from the sale of merchandise sold in connection with the distribution of catalogs of at least
twenty-four pages, which contain written descriptions or illustrations and sale prices for each
item of merchandise and which are distributed in more than one state with a total annual
distribution of at least two hundred fifty thousand.