A. If the attorney general has reasonable cause to believe that a person has engaged in, is engaging in or is about to engage in any practice or transaction which is in violation of this article or order or assurance of discontinuance entered under this article, he may:
1. Require such person to file on such forms as he prescribes a statement or report in writing, under oath, as to all the facts and circumstances concerning the sale or advertisement of merchandise by such person, and such other data and information as he may deem necessary.
2. Examine under oath any person in connection with the sale or advertisement of any merchandise.
3. Examine any merchandise or sample thereof, or any record, book, document, account or paper as he may deem necessary.
4. Pursuant to an order of the superior court, impound any record, book, document, account, paper, or sample or merchandise material to such practice and retain the same in his possession until the completion of all proceedings undertaken under this article or in the courts.
B. This section does not prohibit the attorney general from investigation of violations of this article including requesting a person to respond to a complaint filed against him. A person cannot be compelled to comply with a request to respond to a complaint except in accordance with section 44-1527.
Notes of Decisions
Dunlap v. Jimmy GMC of Tucson, Inc., 666 P.2d 83 (Ariz. Ct. App. 1983).
· cites it 4× “A.R.S. § 44-1524 sets forth the elaborate powers of the attorney general under the consumer fraud act.”
People Ex Rel. Babbitt v. Green Acres Trust, 618 P.2d 1086 (Ariz. Ct. App. 1980).
· cites it 2× “Appellees have not cited to this court any authority to the effect that taking the investigatory steps referred to in section 1524 is a jurisdictional prerequisite to commencing a consumer fraud action.”
People Ex Rel. Babbitt v. Herndon, 581 P.2d 688 (Ariz. 1978).
· cites it 2× “*455 § 44-1524. 1 Pursuant to his authority under this provision, the Attorney General, in early June, 1976, issued to Herndon a Demand for Production of Documents or Tangible Objects, a Demand to Answer Written Interrogatories and a Demand to Appear and be Examined Under Oath.”
Sellinger v. Freeway Mobile Home Sales, Inc., 521 P.2d 1119 (Ariz. 1974).
“It provides by § 44-1524 that upon receipt of a complaint that a person has engaged in or is engaging in practices declared by the Act to be unlawful the Attorney General, when he believes it to be in the public interest, may make an investigation into any of such practices, and…”
Bus. Doe, LLC v. State of Alaska (Alaska 2025).
“, Ariz. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 44-1524 (A) (“If the attorney general has reasonable cause to believe that a person has engaged in, is engaging in or is about to engage in any practice or transaction which is in violation of this article .”
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