GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2009

 

 

SESSION LAW 2009-122

HOUSE BILL 686

 

 

AN ACT to modernize notice requirements for protections for telephone subscribers who wish to stop unwanted telephone solicitations and for consumers who enter into telemarketing transactions.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

SECTION 1.  G.S. 75-102(m) reads as rewritten:

"(m)      The Attorney General, in consultation with the Public Staff of the Public Utilities Commission, shall draft the contents of a bill insert insert or bill message, a direct mailing, and an e-mail that notifies consumers of the existence of the "Do Not Call" Registry and provides information to consumers on how to use it and the other provisions of this Article to object to receiving telephone solicitations. Local exchange companies shall distribute the insertnotification pursuant to G.S. 62-54."

SECTION 2.  G.S. 62-54 reads as rewritten:

"§ 62-54.  Notification of opportunity to object to telephone solicitation.

The Commission shall require each local exchange company and each competing local provider certified to do business in North Carolina to notify all telephone subscribers who subscribe to residential service from that company of the provisions of Article 4 of Chapter 75 of the General Statutes and of the federal laws and regulations allowing consumers to object to receiving telephone solicitations, by enclosing a bill insert,solicitations. The notification shall be drafted pursuant to G.S. 75-102(m), at least annually, in at least one telephone bill mailed to every residential customer.G.S. 75-102(m), shall be distributed at least annually, and shall be distributed by one of the following methods: bill insert or bill message, direct mail, or e-mail when the subscriber has affirmatively selected e-mail as a means of notification. The Commission shall also ensure that this information is printed in a clear, conspicuous manner in the consumer information pages of each telephone directory distributed to residential customers."

SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective October 1, 2009.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 11th day of June, 2009.

 

 

                                                                    s/  Marc Basnight

                                                                         President Pro Tempore of the Senate

 

 

                                                                    s/  Joe Hackney

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

 

                                                                    s/  Beverly E. Perdue

                                                                         Governor

 

 

Approved 11:29 a.m. this 19th day of June, 2009