§ 6106. Definitions

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1994

   Pub. L. 103–297 § 7 · 108 Stat. 1545

   Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 6106

   Pub. L. 103–297, § 7, Aug. 16, 1994, 108 Stat. 1550

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Pub. L. 103–297, § 7, Aug. 16, 1994, 108 Stat. 1550

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   SEC. 7. DEFINITIONS. For purposes of this Act: (1) The term “attorney general” means the chief legal officer of a State. (2) The term “Commission” means the Federal Trade Commission. (3) 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. (4) The term “telemarketing” means a plan, program, or campaign which is conducted to induce purchases of goods or services 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— (A) contains a written description, or illustration of the goods or services offered for sale, (B) includes the business address of the seller, (C) includes multiple pages of written material or illustrations, and (D) 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.

2. 2001

   Crimes Against Charitable Americans Act of 2001

   Pub. L. 107–56 title X § 1011(b)(3) · 115 Stat. 272

   Inserted · 15 U.S.C. § 6106(4)

   Pub. L. 107–56 inserted “, or a charitable contribution, donation, or gift of money or any other thing of value,” after “services” in introductory provisions

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Par. (4). Pub. L. 107–56 inserted “, or a charitable contribution, donation, or gift of money or any other thing of value,” after “services” in introductory provisions.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (3) in section 7(4), by inserting “, or a charitable contribution, donation, or gift of money or any other thing of value,” after “services”.

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision