Code of Ala. § 8-19C-2
§ 8-19C-2. Objections to telephone solicitations
(a)
No person or entity may make or cause to be made any telephone solicitation to the telephone line of
any residential subscriber in this state who has given notice to the commission of his or her objection to
receiving telephone solicitations.
(b)
(1)
The commission shall establish and operate a data base to compile a list of telephone numbers of
residential subscribers who object to receiving telephone solicitations. The commission shall have the data
base in operation before July 1, 2000.
(2)
The data base may be operated by the commission or by another entity under contract with the
commission.
(3)
Before July 1, 2000, the commission shall promulgate regulations which shall include all of the
following:
a.
A requirement that each local exchange company and each competing local exchange carrier shall inform
on an annual basis its residential subscribers of the opportunity to provide notification to the commission or
its contractor that the subscriber objects to receiving telephone solicitations.
The information shall be disseminated at the option of the carrier by television, radio, or newspaper
advertisements; written correspondence; bill insert or messages; telephone book subscription forms; or any
other method not expressly prohibited.
b.
Methods by which each residential subscriber may give notice to the commission or its contractor of
his or her objection to receiving solicitations or revocation of the notice.
c.
Methods by which a notice of objection becomes effective and the effect of a change of telephone
number on the notice.
d.
Methods by which objections and revocations are collected and added to the data base.
e.
Methods by which a person or entity desiring to make telephone solicitations may obtain access to the
data base as required to avoid calling the telephone numbers of residential subscribers included in the data
base.
f.
All other matters relating to the data base that the commission deems necessary.
(4)
If, pursuant to 47 U.S.C. Section 227(c)(3), the Federal Communications Commission establishes a single
national data base of telephone numbers of subscribers who object to receiving telephone solicitations, the
commission shall include the part of the single national data base that relates to Alabama in the data base
established under this section.
