§ 714D.5 — Conditions on use of prize promotions to solicit authority to provide or change telecommunications services

Iowa § 714D.5

• Jurisdiction: Iowa
• Title XVI: CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE
• Ch. 714D: TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE PROVIDER FRAUD

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telecommunications services.
1. It is an unlawful practice for a person to use a form or document which is to be
used or intended to be used by another person to enter a sweepstakes, contest, or drawing
of any description as written authority to provide or execute a change of a consumer’s
telecommunications service.
2. It is an unlawful practice for a person to solicit the lease or sale of or to solicit
the authority to provide or execute a change of a telecommunications service to another
person through or in conjunction with a sweepstakes, contest, or drawing without clearly,
conspicuously, and fully disclosing in all direct mail solicitations to the other person the
fact that the sweepstakes, contest, or drawing is intended to solicit authority to provide or
execute a change of a telecommunications service. The disclosure required shall include, at
a minimum, all of the following:
a. Astatementthatanacceptanceorchangeoftelecommunicationsserviceisnotrequired
to enter the sweepstakes, contest, or drawing.
b. Analternativemeansbywhichapersonmayenterthesweepstakes,contest,ordrawing
without accepting or authorizing a change in a telecommunications service.
c. The name and telephone number of the entity soliciting the person to accept or to
authorize a change of telecommunications service through the use of or in conjunction with
the sweepstakes, contest, or drawing.
d. A brief description of the nature of the telecommunications service for which
authorization is sought through the use of or in conjunction with the sweepstakes, contest,
or drawing.