Oklahoma § 15-775A.3 - Registration with Attorney General

§ 15-775A.3. Registration with Attorney General

A. No commercial telephone seller shall conduct business in

this state without having registered with the Attorney General at

least ten (10) days prior to the conduct of such business.

Individual employees of the commercial telephone seller are not

required to register. A commercial telephone seller conducts

business in this state if the telephone solicitations of prospective

purchasers are made from locations in this state or solicitation is

made of prospective purchasers located in this state.

B. A registration shall be effective for one (1) year after the

date of filing with the Attorney General. Each application for

registration or renewal thereof shall be accompanied by a filing

fee, determined and collected by the Attorney General, but such

filing fee shall not exceed Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00) for

an application for registration or One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) for

an application for renewal. Any registration not renewed by the

commercial telephone seller by the anniversary date of the

registration shall lapse. If the registration lapses, the

commercial telemarketer must file another application accompanied by

a fee of Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00). All monies collected

under this subsection shall be placed to the credit of the Attorney

General's Revolving Fund created in Section 20 of Title 74 of the

Oklahoma Statutes.

C. Whenever, prior to expiration of a commercial telephone

seller's annual registration, there is a material change in the

information required by subsection E of this section, the seller

shall, within ten (10) days, file an addendum updating the

information with the Attorney General.

D. Each application for registration shall be in writing and

shall contain such information regarding the conduct of the

commercial telephone seller's business and the personnel conducting

the business as is required by law. The application shall be

submitted on a form provided by the Attorney General and shall be

verified by a declaration signed by each principal of the commercial

telephone seller under penalty of perjury. The declaration shall

specify the date and location of signing. The information submitted

pursuant to this section shall be available for public inspection.

E. Each application for registration or renewal pursuant to

this section shall contain the following information:

1. The name or names of the commercial telephone seller,

including all names under which the commercial telephone seller is

doing or intends to do business, if different from the name of the

seller, and the name of any parent or affiliated organization;

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 15. Contracts

2. The seller's business form and the date and place of

organization;

3. The complete street addresses of all locations from which

the commercial telephone seller is or will be conducting business,

including a designation of the seller's principal business location;

4. A listing of all telephone numbers, including pay-per-call

numbers, to be used by the commercial telephone seller;

5. The name, residential address, and position held by each

principal of the commercial telephone seller and the names,

residential addresses and positions of those persons who have

management responsibilities in connection with the commercial

telephone seller's business activities;

6. A description of the goods, services, property or extension

of credit the commercial telephone seller is offering for sale and a

copy of all sales scripts the commercial telephone seller requires

salespersons to use when soliciting prospective purchasers, or, if

no sales script is required to be used, a description of the sales

presentation;

7. All rules, regulations, terms, restrictions and conditions

to receiving any prize, bonus, award, gift or premium, if

applicable, including a description of each prize, bonus, award,

gift or premium, and the actual or approximate odds of a purchaser's

receiving such prize, bonus, award, gift or premium;

8. A copy or representative sample of all written materials the

seller sends to any purchaser; and

9. Such additional information regarding the conduct of the

commercial telephone seller's business and the personnel conducting

the business as may reasonably be required by the Attorney General.

Added by Laws 1994, c. 235, § 7, eff. Sept. 1, 1994. Amended by

Laws 1994, c. 382, § 12, eff. Sept. 1, 1994; Laws 1999, c. 325, § 4,

eff. Nov. 1, 1999.