# CON-PAPER-ELEMENTS — Paper consent form must carry the disclosure, a tick box, and a signature line

> The form must show the full consent disclosure, a messaging tick box separable from the phone field, and a signature and date.

- **Rule ID:** CON-PAPER-ELEMENTS
- **Layer:** Consent flow (`CONSENT_FLOW`)
- **Checks:** `paper consent form`
- **Severity:** BLOCKING — Breaking this rule gets the submission rejected outright.
- **When it bites:** Gates approval — get this wrong and registration is refused
- **How it is detected:** AI vision over a consent artifact (screenshot, scan, MMS media)
- **Fix type:** Produce a document that does not exist yet
- **Required by:** TCR, CTIA, FCC
- **Applies:** Applies when consent was collected by paper form and employer / HR.
- **Canonical URL:** https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/consent-flow/con-paper-elements/

## Why this rule exists

A phone-number line on an intake form is contact information, not consent to be marketed to. The separable tick box is what turns a form someone filled in for another purpose into an auditable messaging opt-in, and the signature and date are what let you evidence when it happened.

## How to fix it

Redesign the form so SMS consent is its own tick box with the full disclosure printed beside it, positioned so a customer can give a phone number without ticking it, plus a signature and date line.

## Notes

whenUnreadable is FAIL, against the default. A paper form is evidence the brand chose to submit; if we cannot read the tick box or the disclosure, neither can a reviewer holding the same scan, so an unreadable form fails the same way an absent one does. The user must re-scan it themselves — flatbed or a document-scanner app, not a photograph of a page at an angle.