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the recipient may provide notice to the sender that the
recipient does not wish to receive any more unsolicited
commercial e-mail.

 
3.__Statement.__All unsolicited commercial e-mail must
contain:

 
A.__In the subject line:

 
(1)__The first 4 characters as follows: "ADV:"; and

 
(2)__If the unsolicited commercial e-mail contains
information about material that may be viewed only by
a person at least 18 years of age, the first 8
characters as follows: "ADV:ADLT";

 
B.__A statement informing the recipient of the name of the
person or entity from which the unsolicited commercial e-
mail originated;

 
C.__The return e-mail address required by subsection 2;
and

 
D.__A statement informing the recipient that the recipient
may use the return e-mail address to notify the sender
that the recipient does not want to receive any more
unsolicited commercial e-mails from the sender.

 
4.__Prohibition.__A person receiving notification from a
recipient that the recipient does not wish to receive any more
unsolicited commercial e-mails from that person shall cease to
send unsolicited commercial e-mails to that recipient.__If a
recipient is the registered owner of more than one e-mail
address and notifies the sender of unsolicited commercial e-
mails to cease sending unsolicited commercial e-mails to all
of the e-mail addresses registered to that person or entity,
the sender shall cease to send unsolicited commercial e-mails
to those addresses.

 
5.__Penalty.__ Violation of this chapter is an unfair trade
practice as prohibited by Title 5, section 207.__Each
unsolicited commercial e-mail transmission to a recipient in
violation of this chapter constitutes a separate violation.__
The Attorney General shall establish procedures for receiving
and investigating complaints of violations of this chapter.__
The procedures may include the development of electronic
forms, available over the Internet, by which a person may file
a complaint with the Attorney General alleging a violation of
this chapter.

 
6.__Civil action; recipients.__Notwithstanding Title 5,
section 213, a person who receives a commercial e-mail sent in


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