2006 Minnesota Code
Chapters 324 - 338 Trade Regulations, Consumer Protection
Chapter 325E Regulation of Trade Practices
Section 325E.395 FACSIMILE TRANSMISSION OF UNSOLICITED ADVERTISING MATERIALS.

325E.395 FACSIMILE TRANSMISSION OF UNSOLICITED ADVERTISING
MATERIALS.
Subdivision 1. Telephone number and address required; notice. (a) A person conducting
business in this state may not make or cause to be made a facsimile transmission of documents
consisting of unsolicited advertising material for the lease, sale, rental, gift offer, or other
disposition of property or services unless the person establishes a toll-free telephone number
that a recipient of the unsolicited documents may call to notify the sender not to transmit to
the recipient unsolicited documents.
(b) Unsolicited facsimile transmissions subject to this section must include a statement, in at
least 9-point type, informing the recipient of the toll-free telephone number the recipient may
call, and an address the recipient may write to, to notify the sender not to transmit to the recipient
unsolicited documents to the facsimile number specified by the recipient.
(c) Upon receiving a request not to transmit unsolicited documents, no person or entity
conducting business in this state may make or cause to be made any unsolicited facsimile
transmissions of documents to the person making the request.
Subd. 2. Exception. This section does not apply to the transmission of documents by a
telecommunications service provider to the extent that the telecommunications service provider
merely provides transmission facilities.
Subd. 3. Remedies and penalties. A person who is found to have violated this section is
subject to the penalties and remedies, including a private right of action, as provided in section
8.31.
History: 1993 c 197 s 1