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82x17: Gift Exception for Items that Qualify as Unsolicited Advertising

November 18, 1982

A publishing company is not prohibited by 5 C.F.R. § 735.202 from distributing for free an edition of a reference book to the 29,000 agency officials listed in the book.  While the company did business or was seeking to do business with those agencies, the book fell within the exception for unsolicited advertising.

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