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Telephone Solicitations (seller registration and caller ID blocking)

IN Telephone Seller Registration

Marketing

Covered telephone sellers must register with the Attorney General and update their registration every year. The chapter also makes it a crime to block one's number or identity from caller ID while making a telephone solicitation outside an existing course of dealing.

Where

Indiana

Citation

Ind. Code ch. 24-5-12 (IC 24-5-12-0.1 to 24-5-12-25)

Status

In force

Enforced by

Indiana Attorney General, Consumer Protection Division; county prosecutors (criminal); private parties

People can sue

Yes

Penalties

Failing to register is a Level 6 felony (IC 24-5-12-22); violations are deceptive acts under IC 24-5-0.5 (IC 24-5-12-23). Purchasers may cancel contracts and sue for damages, costs, and attorney's fees (IC 24-5-12-18 to 24-5-12-20). Blocking caller ID while soliciting is a Class B misdemeanor (IC 24-5-12-25).

Applies to

• Sellers that solicit Indiana prospects by phone (personally, through salespeople, or through automated dialing) using specified inducements, such as gift or prize representations or discounted timeshare vacations (IC 24-5-12-8, 24-5-12-10)