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 , 99E , 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 ; 2019 Acts, ch 132, §39, 45, 46