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1 AN ACT in relation to telephone solicitations.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Telephone Solicitations Act is amended by
5 changing Section 15 as follows:
6 (815 ILCS 413/15)
7 Sec. 15. Method of operations.
8 (a) No person shall solicit the sale of goods or
9 services in this State by placing a telephone call during the
10 hours between 9 p.m. and 8 a.m.
11 (b) A live operator soliciting the sale of goods or
12 services shall:
13 (1) immediately state his or her name, the name of
14 the business or organization being represented, and the
15 purpose of the call; and
16 (2) inquire at the beginning of the call whether
17 the person called consents to the solicitation; and
18 (3) if the person called requests to be taken off
19 the contact list of the business or organization, the
20 operator must refrain from calling that person again and
21 take all steps necessary to have that person's name and
22 telephone number removed from the contact records of the
23 business or organization so that the person will not be
24 contacted again by the business or organization.
25 Compliance with Section 310.4(b) of the Federal Trade
26 Commission's Telemarketing Sales Rule shall constitute
27 compliance with this subsection (b)(3) of this Section.
28 (c) A person may not solicit the sale of goods or
29 services by telephone in a manner that impedes the function
30 of any caller ID when the telephone solicitor's service or
31 equipment is capable of allowing the display of the
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1 solicitor's telephone number.
2 (Source: P.A. 90-541, eff. 6-1-98; 91-182, eff. 1-1-00.)