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Title 15 — Commerce and Trade

Chapter 87A — National Do-Not-Call Registry

§ 6155. Prohibition of expiration date

Statutory text

(a)

No automatic removal of numbers

Telephone numbers registered on the national “do-not-call” registry of the Telemarketing Sales Rule (16 CFR 310.4(b)(1)(iii)) since the establishment of the registry and telephone numbers registered on such registry after , shall not be removed from such registry except as provided for in subsection (b) or upon the request of the individual to whom the telephone number is assigned.

(b)

Removal of invalid, disconnected, and reassigned telephone numbers

The Federal Trade Commission shall periodically check telephone numbers registered on the national “do-not-call” registry against national or other appropriate databases and shall remove from such registry those telephone numbers that have been disconnected and reassigned. Nothing in this section prohibits the Federal Trade Commission from removing invalid telephone numbers from the registry at any time.

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. Do-Not-Call Implementation Act

    Pub. L. 108–10 § 5 · 117 Stat. 557

    Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 6155

    (Pub. L. 108–10, § 5, as added Pub. L. 110–187, § 2, Feb. 15, 2008, 122 Stat. 633.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 108–10, § 5, as added Pub. L. 110–187, § 2, Feb. 15, 2008, 122 Stat. 633.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (5) an analysis of the progress of coordinating the operation and enforcement of the “do-not-call” registry with the enforcement activities of the Federal Communications Commission pursuant to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (47 U.S.C. 227 et seq.); and

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 108–10, § 5, as added Pub. L. 110–187, § 2, , 122 Stat. 633.)

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