NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 724

HOUSE BILL 1119

 

 

AN ACT TO PREVENT UNFAIR AND DECEPTIVE WORK-AT-HOME SOLICITATIONS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Chapter 75 of the General Statutes is hereby amended by adding thereto a new Section 75-30 to read as follows:

"§ 75-30.  Work-at-home solicitations. — No person, firm, association, or corporation shall advertise, represent, or imply that any person can earn money by stuffing envelopes, addressing envelopes, mailing circulars, clipping newspaper and magazine articles, or performing similar work, unless the person, firm, association or corporation making the advertisement or representation:

(1)        actually pays a wage, salary, set fee, or commission to others for performing the represented tasks; and

(2)        at no time requires the person who will perform the represented tasks to purchase from or make a deposit to the solicitor on any instructional booklets, brochures, kits, programs or similar information materials, mailing lists, directories, memberships in cooperative associations, or other items or services."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1979.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 31st day of May, 1979.