30-14-1603. Department to provide for no-call list database -- rules -- inclusion of national database -- database not public record -- no cost to subscribers. (1) The department shall provide for the operation of a database containing a list of names and telephone numbers of residential subscribers who object to receiving telephone solicitations. A residential subscriber may be listed in the database without cost to the subscriber.
(2) The department shall promulgate rules and regulations governing the state no-call database that are necessary and appropriate to fully implement the provisions of this part. The rules must include but are not limited to rules specifying:
(a) the methods by which each residential subscriber may give notice to the department or a contractor designated by the department of the residential subscriber's objection to receiving telephone solicitations or the methods by which the residential subscriber may revoke the notice;
(b) the length of time for which a notice of objection is effective and the effect of a change of telephone number on the notice;
(c) the methods by which pertinent information may be collected and added to the no-call database;
(d) the methods for obtaining access to the no-call database by any person or entity desiring to make telephone solicitations if that person or entity is required to avoid calling the residential subscribers included in the no-call database;
(e) the cost to be assessed to a person or entity that is required to obtain access to the no-call database; and
(f) other matters relating to the no-call database that the department considers desirable.
(3) If the federal communications commission establishes a single national database of telephone numbers of residential subscribers who object to receiving telephone solicitations pursuant to 47 U.S.C. 227(c)(3), the department shall include that part of the single national database that relates to Montana in the no-call database established pursuant to this section.
(4) Information contained in the no-call database established pursuant to this section may be used only for the purpose of compliance with 30-14-1602 and this section or in a proceeding or action pursuant to 30-14-1605. The information is confidential information as defined in 2-6-1002 and is protected from disclosure.
(5) In April, July, October, and January of each year, the department shall make a reasonable attempt to obtain subscription listings of residential subscribers in this state who have arranged to be included on any national no-call list and add those names to the state no-call list.
History: En. Sec. 3, Ch. 589, L. 2003; amd. Sec. 15, Ch. 280, L. 2005; amd. Sec. 49, Ch. 348, L. 2015.
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