(a) The Illinois Commerce Commission shall establish and provide for the operation of a Restricted Call Registry, which shall contain a list of the telephone numbers of residential subscribers who do not wish to receive telephone solicitation calls. The national "do-not-call" registry established and maintained by the Federal Trade Commission, pursuant to 16 C.F.R. 310.4 (b)(1)(iii)(B), shall serve as the Registry provided by this Act.

(b) Residential subscribers may cause their telephone number or numbers to appear on the Registry in any manner prescribed by the Illinois Commerce Commission.

(c) Any person or entity conducting telephone solicitation calls as defined by Section 5(e) of this Act [815 ILCS 402/5] within the State of Illinois shall purchase the Restricted Call Registry and updates no less frequently than every 3 months exclusively from the Federal Trade Commission. Failure to do so prior to conducting telephone solicitation calls is a violation subject to the penalties provided for in Section 35 of this Act [815 ILCS 402/35].

(d) The Illinois Commerce Commission may adopt rules consistent with this Act that the Illinois Commerce Commission deems necessary and appropriate to fully implement this Act.

(e) Information pertaining to residential subscribers in the Registry is confidential and shall be afforded reasonable privacy protection except as necessary for compliance with Sections 10 and 25 [815 ILCS 402/10 and 815 ILCS 402/25] and this Section or in a proceeding or action under Section 35 or 40 [815 ILCS 402/35 or 815 ILCS 402/40]. The information is not a public record under the Freedom of Information Act [5 ILCS 140/1 et seq.].

(f) A person or entity that obtains the Registry shall not use the Registry for any purpose other than to comply with this Act. These unlawful purposes include, but are not limited to, causing a subscriber to participate in and be included in the Registry without the subscriber's knowledge or consent, selling or leasing the Registry to a person other than a telephone solicitor, selling or leasing by a telephone solicitor of the Registry, and a telephone solicitor, either directly or indirectly, persuading a subscriber with whom it has an established business relationship to place his or her telephone number in the Registry, if the solicitation has the effect of preventing competitors from contacting that solicitor's customers.

(g) No person or entity that sells, leases, exchanges, or rents telephone solicitation lists, except for directory assistance and telephone directories sold by telephone companies or their affiliates, shall include in those lists those telephone numbers that appear in the current Registry. RESTRICTED CALL REGISTRY ACT