Code of Alabama - Title 8: Commercial Law and Consumer Protection - Chapter 19C - Telephone Solicitations

• Section 8-19C-1 Legislative findings
  The Legislature of Alabama finds all of the following: (1) The use of the telephone to market goods and services to the home is pervasive...
• Section 8-19C-2 Database of subscribers objecting 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...
• Section 8-19C-3 Database fees
  (a) The commission shall have the authority to charge a residential subscriber a fee every two years payable to the commission for each notice for...
• Section 8-19C-4 Disclosure of information
  Information contained in the database established pursuant to this chapter may be used only for the purpose of compliance with this chapter or in a...
• Section 8-19C-5 Identification by telephone solicitors required
  (a) Any person or entity who makes a telephone solicitation to the telephone line of a residential subscriber in this state shall identify himself or...
• Section 8-19C-6 Violations
  The commission may commence proceedings in the circuit court in the county relating to a knowing violation or threatened knowing violation of subsection (a) of...
• Section 8-19C-7 Action to enjoin violations
  A person who has received more than one telephone solicitation within a 12-month period by or on behalf of the same person or entity in...
• Section 8-19C-8 Defenses
  It shall be a defense in any action or proceeding brought under Section 8-19C-6 or Section 8-19C-7 that the defendant has established and implemented, with...
• Section 8-19C-9 Limitations
  No action or proceeding may be brought under Section 8-19C-6 or Section 8-19C-7 more than two years after the person bringing the action knew or...
• Section 8-19C-10 Jurisdiction
  A court of this state may exercise personal jurisdiction over any nonresident or his or her executor or administrator as to an action or proceeding...
• Section 8-19C-11 Remedies not exclusive
  The remedies, duties, prohibitions, and penalties of Sections 8-19C-2 to 8-19C-10, inclusive, of this chapter shall not be exclusive and shall be in addition to...
• Section 8-19C-12 Liability
  No provider of telephone caller identification service, local exchange telephone company, or long distance telephone company may be held liable for violations of this chapter...

Last modified: May 3, 2021