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Vermont

12/17/01

From the Attorney General's Office, June 11, 1998: "I have reviewed the questionnaire you sent. Each question pertains to either an essay or question contest that requires any participant to pay an entry fee. Vermont law prohibits contests, give-aways, raffles, and games of skill or chance that require participants to submit any type of entry fee or service charge. I have enclosed a copy of Vt. Attorney General Rule, CF 109 for your convenience"

"CF 109.01 CONTESTS. It shall constitute an unfair and deceptive trade act and practice in commerce under 9 V.S.A. Section 2453(a) for any person to solicit any other person to engage in an kind of a game of skill, contest, sweepstakes, give-away or other promotion which:

• (a) is deceptive or misleading as to chances of winning, the number of winners, the value of the prizes, or the availability of the prize;
  
• (b) requires any kind of an entry fee, service charge, purchase or similar consideration in order to enter or to continue to remain eligible; or,
  
• (c) use publications, literature, written or verbal promotion that is false, deceptive or misleading."

Office of the Attorney General
109 State Street
Montpelier VT 05609-1001
(802) 828-3171
(802) 828-2154 (facsimile)
(802) 828-3171 (TDD)

The Vermont Statutes Annotated

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