714B.10 Exemptions.

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, 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, 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.

94 Acts, ch 1185, §11; 2003 Acts, ch 178, §116, 121; 2003 Acts, ch 179, §142; 2010 Acts, ch 1061, §81; 2014 Acts, ch 1092, §195