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§ 24.11 DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTSUnder one state’s law, any person who solicits contributions for a charitablepurpose and who receives compensation for the service must inform each personbeing solicited, in writing, that the solicitation is a “paid solicitation.” Inanother state, when a solicitation is made by “direct personal contact,” certaininformation must be “predominantly” disclosed in writing at the point of solicitation.In another state, the solicitation material and the “general promotionalplan” for a solicitation may not be false, misleading, or deceptive, and mustafford a “full and fair” disclosure.In general, the typical state charitable solicitation act seems immune fromsuccessful constitutional law challenge. That is, the constitutional law attacks onthese laws prevail only in relation to particularly egregious features of them. Thesame may be said of local fundraising regulation ordinances. The difficulty withthe latter, however, is not so much their content as their number. A charitableorganization involved in a multistate charitable solicitation may be expected tocomply with hundreds, perhaps thousands, of these ordinances. To date, whenresponding to complaints by charities as to this burden of regulation, the courtsreview only the content of each local law, refusing to evaluate the difficultiesthey pose in the aggregate. 637