§ 24-5-22-8 — Commercial electronic mail; prohibited practices

Indiana § 24-5-22-8

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Art. 5: CONSUMER SALES
• Ch. 22: Deceptive Commercial Electronic Mail

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A person may not do any of the following:
(1) Send unsolicited commercial electronic mail and fail to use
"ADV:" as the initial four (4) characters in the subject line of the
electronic mail. This subdivision does not apply if any of the
following apply:
(A) The sender of the electronic mail has a current business
relationship with the recipient of the electronic mail.
(B) The sender of the electronic mail is an organization using
the electronic mail to communicate with its members.
(C) The sender of the electronic mail is an organization using
the electronic mail to communicate exclusively with the
organization's employees or contractors, or both.
(2) Send unsolicited commercial electronic mail and fail to use
"ADV:ADLT" as the first eight (8) characters in the subject line
of the electronic mail if the unsolicited commercial electronic
mail is any of the following:
(A) The unsolicited commercial electronic mail contains a
solicitation for the sale or lease of services or tangible or
intangible personal or real property that may not be purchased,
leased, or possessed by a minor under Indiana law.
(B) The unsolicited commercial electronic mail contains a
solicitation for an extension of credit.
(C) The unsolicited commercial electronic mail contains matter
that is harmful to minors under Indiana law.
(3) Send unsolicited commercial electronic mail and fail to
provide a means for the recipient easily and at no cost to the
recipient to remove the recipient's name from the sender's
electronic mail address lists.
(4) Send unsolicited commercial electronic mail to a recipient
who has asked the sender to remove the recipient's electronic mail
address from the sender's electronic mail address lists.
(5) Provide to a third person the electronic mail address of a
recipient who has asked the sender to remove the recipient's
electronic mail address from the sender's electronic mail address
lists. This subdivision applies to a third person who is a part of the
sender's business organization. This subdivision does not prohibit
providing a recipient's electronic mail address to a third person for
the sole purpose of inclusion of the electronic mail address on a
do-not-mail list.

Legislative History

As added by P.L.36-2003, SEC.1.