A.  For purposes of this Section the following definitions shall apply to the terms used herein:

(1)  A “noncredit home solicitation sale” is a consumer sale involving a cash price of twenty-five dollars or more for goods or services or both, in which the seller or a person acting for him engages in a personal solicitation of the sale at any place other than the business establishment of the seller and the purchaser offers to purchase or agrees to the sale at a place other than the business establishment of the seller or his representative.  This definition shall also include all telephone solicitations in which the seller has initiated contact regardless of his location, and the consumer’s agreement to purchase is made at the consumer’s home.  It does not include a consumer credit sale as defined in La. Rev. Stat. 9:3516(11), a sale made pursuant to prior negotiations between the parties at a business establishment at a fixed location where goods or services are offered or exhibited for sale, a catalogue sale, a sale that may have been initiated by the consumer by communication, whether by telephone or in person, with the seller at his business establishment, or policies of insurance.  

(2)  A “consumer sale” is the sale of a thing or services purchased primarily for personal, family, or household purposes and the purchaser is not an organization; however, a consumer sale shall not include the sale of religious periodicals, books, and other religious materials by a bona fide religious association, a motor vehicle, immovable property, farm equipment, farm services, or any transaction made pursuant to the Motor Vehicle Sales Finance Act, La. Rev. Stat. 6:951 et seq.  The parties to a contract may contract with one another that a sale shall be a consumer sale for the purposes of this Section, except those sales subject to the Motor Vehicle Sales Finance Act.

B.  Each seller or person acting on behalf of a seller, who makes or attempts to make a noncredit home solicitation sale shall comply with the provisions of La. Rev. Stat. 9:3539 and La. Rev. Stat. 9:3540 and shall provide a written agreement or offer to purchase that complies with the requirements of La. Rev. Stat. 9:3539.  Each consumer purchasing or agreeing to purchase as the result of a noncredit home solicitation sale, shall have the right to cancel such sale in accordance with the requirements of La. Rev. Stat. 9:3538 through La. Rev. Stat. 9:3541.  

C.  It shall be an unfair trade practice for a seller or his representative to fail to comply with the provisions of La. Rev. Stat. 9:3539 and La. Rev. Stat. 9:3540 and the failure to so comply shall subject the seller to the penalties and actions found in the Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law, La. Rev. Stat. 51:1401 et seq.  

Added by Acts 1982, No. 744, §1.