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