15 U.S.C. § 6106 — Definitions
submitted 32 years ago by Pub. L. 103-297 to r/title-15-COMMERCE-AND-TRADE · 202 words · no verdicts yet
This section defines attorney general, Commission, State, and telemarketing. It excludes a particular catalog-mailing method from telemarketing when all listed conditions apply.
For this chapter: (1) “Attorney general” means a State’s chief legal officer. (2) “Commission” means the Federal Trade Commission. (3) “State” means a United States State, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, or a United States territory or possession. (4) “Telemarketing” means a plan, program, or campaign using one or more telephones to induce purchases, charitable contributions, donations, or gifts of money or other value, involving more than one interstate call. It does not include catalog-mail sales solicitation when the catalog has a written description or illustration of the goods or services, the seller’s business address, multiple pages of text or illustrations, and is issued at least yearly, and when the solicitor does not telephone customers but only receives customer-initiated calls and takes orders without further solicitation.
For purposes of this chapter:
The term “attorney general” means the chief legal officer of a State.
The term “Commission” means the Federal Trade Commission.
The term “State” means any State of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, and any territory or possession of the United States.
The term “telemarketing” means a plan, program, or campaign which is conducted to induce purchases of goods or services, or a charitable contribution, donation, or gift of money or any other thing of value, by use of one or more telephones and which involves more than one interstate telephone call. The term does not include the solicitation of sales through the mailing of a catalog which—
contains a written description, or illustration of the goods or services offered for sale,
includes the business address of the seller,
includes multiple pages of written material or illustrations, and
has been issued not less frequently than once a year,
where the person making the solicitation does not solicit customers by telephone but only receives calls initiated by customers in response to the catalog and during those calls takes orders only without further solicitation.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 103–297, § 7, Aug. 16, 1994, 108 Stat. 1550; Pub. L. 107–56, title X, § 1011(b)(3), Oct. 26, 2001, 115 Stat. 396.)
- 1994Enacted · Pub. L. 103-297 · 108 Stat. 1550
- 2001Amended · Pub. L. 107-56 · 115 Stat. 396
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 103-297 on 1994-08-16.
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