(a) "Pyramid promotional scheme" shall mean the organization of any chain letter club, pyramid club, or other group organized or brought together under any plan or device whereby fees or dues or anything of material value to be paid or given by members thereof are to be paid or given to any other member thereof, which plan or device includes any provision for the increase in such membership through a chain process of aney members securing other new members and thereby advancing themselves in the group to a position where such members in turn receive fees, dues or things of material varlue from other members. (b) "Promote" or "promotion" shall mean the initiation, preparation, operation, advertisement, or the recruitment of any person or persons itn the furtherance of any pyramid promotional scheme as defined in subsection (a) of this section.
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