Advisory group for consumer protection from telemarketers
The attorney general of Missouri is required to set up a group made up of government offices, phone companies, businesses, and community groups. This group helps put together educational materials that explain to people what choices they have when it comes to unwanted phone sales calls. The attorney general also has to work with local phone companies to spread this information to home phone customers, and keep a website with details about how a person can get added to a no-call list so telemarketers stop calling them.
407.1110. group for protection from telemarketers — of on consumer rights. — The shall establish an advisory group composed of government entities, local telecommunications companies, businesses, and senior citizen and other community advocates to compile and promote a list of educational literature to help consumers understand their options with regard to telephone solicitations. The attorney general shall work with to to their information about the availability of and instructions about how to request educational literature from the attorney general. The attorney general may enter into agreements with those companies for the purpose of of the educational literature. The attorney general shall include on his or her internet website information that informs residential subscribers of their rights to be placed on a and the various methods, including notice to the attorney general, of placing their names on this no-call list. The attorney general shall have this literature developed for dissemination to the public no later than January 1, 2001.
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Source & history notes
(L. 2000 S.B. 763 § 407.1113)
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