RS 827 - Penalties
Except as provided in R.S. 45:826, any person, including but not limited to the seller, a salesperson, agent, or representative of the seller, or an independent contractor, who willfully violates any provision of this Chapter or who directly or indirectly employs any device, scheme, or artifice to deceive in connection with the offer or sale by any telephonic seller, or who willfully, directly or indirectly, engages in any act, practice, or course of business which operates or would operate as a fraud or deceit upon any person in connection with a sale by any telephonic seller shall, upon conviction, be punishable as follows:
(1) By a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars for each unlawful transaction.
(2) By imprisonment in the state prison, or by imprisonment in the parish jail for not more than one year.
(3) By both the fine and imprisonment specified in Paragraphs (1) and (2).
Acts 1993, No. 1003, §1.