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Title XXVI TRADE AND COMMERCE

Chapter 407

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  407.1082.  Penalties — criminal penalties — civil damages. — 1.  It is unlawful pursuant to section 407.020 to violate any provision of sections 407.1070 to 407.1085 or to misrepresent or omit the required disclosures of section 407.1073 or 407.1076, and pursuant to sections 407.010 to 407.130, the violator shall be subject to all penalties, remedies and procedures provided in sections 407.010 to 407.130.  The remedies available in this section are cumulative and in addition to any other remedies available by law.

  2.  Any person who willfully and knowingly engages in any act or practice declared to be unlawful by any provision of subdivisions (2) to (5) of section 407.1076 shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor.  Any person who willfully and knowingly engages in any act or practice declared to be unlawful by any provision of subdivision (1) of section 407.1076, or of subdivisions (6) to (11) of section 407.1076, shall be guilty of a class E felony.  Any person previously convicted of a class E felony pursuant to this subsection shall, for each subsequent conviction, be guilty of a class E felony punishable by the term of years set out for a class E felony, but with a fine of not more than five thousand dollars or a fine equal to triple the gain, with no limit on the amount recoverable pursuant to any triple-the-gain penalty.  Any person who willfully and knowingly fails to keep the records required in section 407.1079 shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor.

  3.  In addition to the remedies already provided in sections 407.1070 to 407.1085, any consumer that suffers a loss or harm as a result of any unlawful telemarketing act or practice pursuant to section 407.1076 may recover actual and punitive damages, reasonable attorney's fees, court costs and any other remedies provided by law.

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(L. 2000 S.B. 763, A.L. 2014 S.B. 491)

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