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                                                    HOUSE BILL NO. 737

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1985 Regular Session

By Representatives Silver, Dellwo, Day, Holland, Betrozoff and Taylor

Read first time 2/8/85 and referred to Committee on Judiciary.

AN ACT Relating to advertising for mail order sales; adding a new section to chapter 9.04 RCW; and prescribing penalties.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 9.04 RCW to read as follows:

          Any person, firm, corporation or association who, with intent to sell or in any wise dispose of merchandise, securities, service, or anything offered by such person, firm, corporation or association, directly or indirectly, to the public for sale or distribution, or with intent to increase the consumption thereof, or to induce the public in any manner to enter into any obligation relating thereto, or to acquire title thereto, or an interest therein, makes, publishes, disseminates, circulates, or places before the public, or causes, directly or indirectly, to be made, published, disseminated, circulated, or placed before the public in this state, in a newspaper or other publication, or in the form of a book, notice, hand-bill, poster, bill, circular, pamphlet, or letter, or in any other way, an advertisement of any sort regarding merchandise, securities, service, or anything so offered to the public, which advertisement contains a street address representing a site used primarily for the receipt or delivery of mail or as a telephone answering service shall also insert into the advertisement the legal name under which business is done and the complete street address from which the business is actually conducted.  A violation of this section is a misdemeanor:  PROVIDED, That the provisions of this section do not apply to any radio or television broadcasting station which broadcasts, or to any publisher, printer or distributor of any newspaper, magazine, billboard or other advertising medium who publishes, prints or distributes, such advertising in good faith without knowledge of the violation.