2006 Kansas Code - 50-675a

      50-675a.   Notification requirements concerning consumer protection; rules and regulations of state corporation commission. No later than July 1, 2001, the state corporation commission shall adopt rules and regulations that:

      (a)   Require all local exchange carriers and telecommunications carriers to collectively develop a method or methods for annually notifying residential subscribers of their rights and remedies available to them under the Kansas consumer protection act, the telephone consumer protection act and the telemarketing and consumer fraud and abuse prevention act and the availability of the direct marketing association's telephone preference service.

      (b)   Require the information provided to residential subscribers in subsection (a) to specify, at a minimum, the following: The method of registering with the telephone preference service at no cost to the subscribers; the frequency with which the data base maintained by the telephone preference service is updated; the types of calls registered subscribers should still expect to receive; the measures subscribers must take to register if they move or receive a new telephone number; the duration for registration and the procedures for registration renewals; and the remedies available to registered subscribers if they receive unsolicited consumer telephone calls pursuant to K.S.A. 50-670, and amendments thereto.

      (c)   Establish guidelines for acceptable methods to inform all telephone solicitors in Kansas of: The requirements for membership in the direct marketing association; charges for members and nonmembers of the direct marketing association to access the data base of the telephone preference service; and options available to telephone solicitors for accessing Kansas-specific portions of the data base.

      History:   L. 2000, ch. 91, § 1; July 1.