Section 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.

89 Acts, ch 274, §4

CS89, §120.4

C93, §9D.4