Law / United States / 
Oklahoma
Telemarketer Restriction Act, no-call registry
Okla. Stat. tit. 15, §§ 775B.1 to 775B.7
In force since .
A telephone contact rule binding private bodies.
- Criminal exposure
- No
- Private right of action
- Yes
- Enforcement body
- Oklahoma Attorney General
- Obligation class
- Prohibition
As of .
What it requires
- Do not make or cause to be made an unsolicited telemarketing sales call or message, including a cellular telephone text message, to a consumer more than thirty days after that consumer's telephone number first appears on the Attorney General's no-telemarketing-sales-call registry, unless you have an established business relationship with the consumer or the number has since been removed from the registry.
- This no-call duty does not reach a call soliciting funds or other support for a charitable or religious activity, a political candidate, cause, or organization, or a not-for-profit organized under Internal Revenue Code section 501(c)(3), and an established business relationship excusing a call is one formed within the preceding twenty-four months, or an ongoing relationship neither party has ended.
What this law does
The Telemarketer Restriction Act requires the Attorney General to maintain a statewide registry of consumers who do not want to receive unsolicited telemarketing sales calls or messages, and bars a telemarketer from calling or messaging a consumer more than thirty days after that consumer's number first appears on the registry, unless the caller has an established business relationship with the consumer or the number has since been removed.
An established business relationship is a relationship formed within the preceding twenty-four months, or an existing relationship formed by the consumer's own inquiry, application, purchase, or transaction, that neither party has ended. The Act's commercial-purposes trigger does not reach a call soliciting funds or support for a charitable, religious, or political cause.
As amended in 2011 by Laws 2011 chapter 369, the Act's telemarketing-call duty also reaches a cellular telephone text message. A willful violation is an unlawful telemarketing practice and a violation of the Oklahoma Consumer Protection Act, giving the consumer the Act's private right of action; alternatively, the Attorney General may assess an administrative fine under a schedule set by rule where the telemarketer shows the violation occurred despite an integral training policy.
When LexLint raises it
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