Sec. 8. (a) No legal action under this chapter may be commenced by the attorney general against a for-profit dental referral service until the attorney general has given the service thirty (30) days written notice of the violation.

     (b) Notice under subsection (a) must comply with the following:

(1) Be sent by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested.

(2) Include a copy of the code sections of the chapter alleged to have been violated.

(3) Describe the alleged unlawful advertising.

(4) Include a statement that the for-profit dental referral service has the lesser of:

(A) thirty (30) days from the date the notice was received; or

(B) thirty-five (35) days from the date the notice was sent;

to cure the violation.

     (c) A for-profit dental service that does not cure a violation within the time period required under subsection (b) is subject to sections 6 and 7 of this chapter.

As added by P.L.33-1993, SEC.23.