9D.4 - PENALTIES.
9D.4 PENALTIES.
1. A person required to register as a travel agency, or an owner
of ten percent or more of a travel agency, required to register by
this chapter, which fails to register, fails to make required
corrections to its registration statement, or fails to pay the
required fee on or before thirty days after the fee becomes due,
commits a serious misdemeanor.
2. If a person required to be registered or listed upon a
registration statement by this chapter receives money, as a fee,
commission, compensation, or profit in connection with doing business
in this state in violation of section 9D.2, the person, in addition
to the criminal penalty in subsection 1, shall be liable for a civil
penalty of not less than three times the sum so received, as may be
determined by the court, which penalty may be recovered in a court of
competent jurisdiction by an aggrieved person, or by the attorney
general for the benefit of an aggrieved person or class of persons.
3. A violation of this chapter is also a violation of section
714.16. Section History: Recent Form
89 Acts, ch 274, §4
CS89, § 120.4
C93, § 9D.4