The Attorney General shall:
(1) Establish and thereafter operate a single statewide database composed of a list of telephone numbers of consumers who object to receiving telephone solicitations;
(2) (A) Specify the methods by which the objections to telephone solicitations shall be collected and added to the database.
(B) (i) Any consumer wishing to be placed in the database may notify the Attorney General and be placed in the database upon receipt by the Attorney General of an application and any initial listing charge which shall not exceed ten dollars ($10.00).
(ii) The listing shall be renewed by the Attorney General annually for each consumer upon the receipt of a renewal notice and any annual assessment not to exceed five dollars ($5.00).
(C) (i) The database may include Arkansas consumers who have registered for the national "Do-Not-Call" registry established and maintained by the Federal Trade Commission pursuant to 16 C.F.R. ยง 310.4, as in effect on March 1, 2003.
(ii) The Attorney General may:
(a) Periodically obtain from the commission the information necessary to add these Arkansas consumers to the database maintained by the Attorney General; and
(b) Provide to the commission access to the state database so that those Arkansas consumers who have signed up for the state database can also be included in the national Do-Not-Call registry;
(3) Specify the methods, if any, by which the objections may be withdrawn from the database;
(4) Specify the methods by which any person desiring to make or transmit telephone solicitations may obtain access to the database as required to avoid calling the telephone numbers of the consumers included in the database;
(5) Specify the methods, if any, for recovering the costs involved in identifying, collecting, updating, and disseminating the database and for other activities related to the Attorney General's duties under this subchapter; and
(6) Specify the frequency with which the database will be updated and specify the method by which the updating will take effect for the purposes of compliance with this subchapter, allowing no fewer than ten (10) calendar days for affected persons to update their databases after the Attorney General's database has been updated.
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