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[Laws in effect as of January 2, 2001]
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[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 
    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.)
