2002 Minnesota Statutes

     325E.313 No-call list. 

    Subdivision 1.    Establishment of list.  The 
 commissioner shall establish and maintain a list of telephone 
 numbers of residential subscribers who object to receiving 
 telephone solicitations.  The commissioner may fulfill the 
 requirements of this subdivision by contracting with an agent 
 for the establishment and maintenance of the list.  The list 
 must be established by January 1, 2003. 

    Subd. 2.    Operation and maintenance of list.  (a) Each 
 local exchange company must inform its residential subscribers 
 of the opportunity to provide notification to the commissioner 
 or its contractor that the subscriber objects to receiving 
 telephone solicitations.  The notification must be made in the 
 manner prescribed by the commissioner. 

    (b) Any residential subscriber may contact the commissioner 
 or the commissioner's agent and give notice, in the manner 
 prescribed by the commissioner, that the subscriber objects to 
 receiving telephone solicitations.  The commissioner shall add 
 the telephone number of any subscriber who gives notice of 
 objection to the list maintained pursuant to subdivision 1 
 within 90 days of the date the notice is received. 

    (c) Any notice given by a subscriber under this subdivision 
 shall be effective for four years unless revoked by the 
 subscriber.  Any subsequent notices given by the same subscriber 
 related to a different telephone number are separate from the 
 original notice. 

    (d) The commissioner shall allow consumers to give notice 
 under this subdivision by mail or electronically. 

    (e) The commissioner shall establish the procedures by 
 which a person wishing to make telephone solicitations may 
 obtain access to the list.  Those procedures shall, to the 
 extent practicable, allow for access to paper or electronic 
 copies of the list. 

    Subd. 3.    Use of federal list.  If, pursuant to United 
 States Code, title 15, section 6102(a), the Federal Trade 
 Commission establishes a national list of telephone numbers of 
 subscribers who object to receiving telephone solicitations, the 
 commissioner shall include subscribers who live in Minnesota and 
 are included in the national list in the list established under 
 this section.  The commissioner shall also transmit to the 
 Federal Trade Commission the telephone numbers included on the 
 no-call list established under this section and shall request 
 that they be included in the national list.  

    HIST: 2002 c 367 s 3