7 U.S.C. § 9b — Rules prohibiting deceptive and other abusive telemarketing acts or practices

(1) Unless subsection (2) applies, the Commission must create rules -- or require each registered futures association to create rules -- that closely match the Federal Trade Commission's telemarketing rules issued under section 6102(a) of title 15. These rules must ban deceptive and other abusive telemarketing by anyone registered or exempt from registration under this chapter, when they act as a futures commission merchant, introducing broker, commodity trading advisor, commodity pool operator, leverage transaction merchant, floor broker, floor trader, or an associated person of any of those. The Commission has six months after the FTC's rules take effect to do this. (2) The Commission doesn't have to create these rules if it determines either: (A) that rules it has already adopted under this chapter give protection from deceptive and abusive telemarketing that is substantially similar to the FTC's rules; or (B) that such a rule is not necessary or appropriate for the public interest, for protecting customers in the futures and options markets, or would conflict with keeping those markets fair and orderly. If the Commission decides that either exception applies, it must publish that determination, along with its reasons, in the Federal Register.