§ 6106. — Definitions.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 15USC6106]
TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
CHAPTER 87--TELEMARKETING AND CONSUMER FRAUD AND ABUSE PREVENTION
Sec. 6106. Definitions
For purposes of this chapter:
(1) The term ``attorney general'' means the chief legal officer
of a State.
(2) The term ``Commission'' means the Federal Trade Commission.
(3) The term ``State'' means any State of the United States, the
District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, and
any territory or possession of the United States.
(4) The term ``telemarketing'' means a plan, program, or
campaign which is conducted to induce purchases of goods or
services, or a charitable contribution, donation, or gift of money
or any other thing of value, by use of one or more telephones and
which involves more than one interstate telephone call. The term
does not include the solicitation of sales through the mailing of a
catalog which--
(A) contains a written description, or illustration of the
goods or services offered for sale,
(B) includes the business address of the seller,
(C) includes multiple pages of written material or
illustrations, and
(D) has been issued not less frequently than once a year,
where the person making the solicitation does not solicit customers
by telephone but only receives calls initiated by customers in
response to the catalog and during those calls takes orders only
without further solicitation.
(Pub. L. 103-297, Sec. 7, Aug. 16, 1994, 108 Stat. 1550; Pub. L. 107-56,
title X, Sec. 1011(b)(3), Oct. 26, 2001, 115 Stat. 396.)
Amendments
2001--Par. (4). Pub. L. 107-56 inserted ``, or a charitable
contribution, donation, or gift of money or any other thing of value,''
after ``services'' in introductory provisions.
