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Indiana Code Title 24. Trade Regulation § 24-5-8-5

Current as of January 02, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

Sec. 5. (a) If the seller represents that the business opportunity provides earning potential of any kind, the seller shall have data to substantiate the claims of earning potential and shall give to the investor at the first in person communication by the seller a copy of this data or a copy of any statement of estimated or projected earning potential prepared for presentation to prospective investors, together with an explanation of the statement.  A mathematical computation of the number of sales multiplied by the amount of profit per sale to reach a projected earnings figure is not sufficient data to substantiate an earnings potential claim for the purposes of this section.

(b) The earning potential data given to the investor by a seller, except a substantial seller, must disclose:

(1) the length of time the seller has been soliciting the particular business opportunity;

(2) the number of investors in the particular business opportunity that were solicited by the seller and known to the seller to have made at least the same sales, earnings, or profits as those represented;

(3) the percentage the number in subdivision (2) represents of the total number of investors in the particular business opportunity that were solicited by the seller;  and

(4) the current address of any person named by the seller as having profited from the particular business opportunity, a description of the circumstances under which the profit was earned, and a description of any interest held by the named person in the business opportunity being offered to the investor.

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