I copied this info from their web site; this is dated, but I am sure the info is still accurate!
For Immediate Release: For Further Information Contact:
February 4, 2004
Office of The Attorney General
Peter C. Harvey, Attorney General
Division of Consumer Affairs
Reni Erdos, Director
Genene Morris, Jeff Lamm
973-504-6327
Public Hearing Set for Proposed Do Not Call Regulations
NEWARK - A public hearing will be held later this month on regulations that were formally proposed this week to implement the State’s Do Not Call list and set strict penalties on telemarketers who violate a resident’s right to privacy, Attorney General Peter C. Harvey and Consumer Affairs Director Reni Erdos said.
New Jersey will adopt the National Do Not Call Registry maintained by the Federal Trade Commission as the State’s list, under the proposal. New Jersey residents registered in the national database will not have to file again to be included on the State’s Do Not Call list.
The proposed regulations also will require telemarketers to register annually with the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs, to disclose whether their principals have been convicted of a crime, and to refrain from calling telephone numbers on the Do Not Call list. Violators will face stiff fines of up to $10,000 for the first offense and up to $20,000 for each subsequent offense.
“The proposed regulations are the toughest in the nation – designed to protect consumers from frustrating and uninvited telemarketing calls,” Governor James E. McGreevey said. “Once New Jersey residents sign up for the Do Not Call list, their evenings at home will again be uninterrupted quality time for their families.”
“We’re empowering residents and giving them the tools to eliminate what often is a source of ill-timed disruption in their lives,” Attorney General Harvey said. “Residents who have already signed up to be included in the federal registry will automatically be afforded protection under New Jersey’s law without having to enroll their telephone numbers on a separate state list.”
“By allowing the Division of Consumer Affairs to simply use the federal registry instead of maintaining a separate New Jersey list, we will not only be providing great cost savings to the State, we will be making sure that we can devote resources to enforcement efforts,” Director Erdos said. “Thanks to Governor McGreevey’s leadership, New Jersey will have the strongest telemarketing regulations in the nation.”
The proposed regulations were published this week in the New Jersey Register and also can be viewed on the Division of Consumer Affairs web site at http://nj.gov/lps/ca/proposal/dcapro22.htm.
The public hearing on the proposed regulations will be held on Wednesday, February 25, beginning at 10 a.m. in the Seton Hall Law School auditorium, 1 Newark Center, Newark, New Jersey. Requests to speak should be submitted in writing at least one week prior to the public hearing to:
Eugene L. Brenycz, Hearing Officer
New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs
Office of the Director
P.O. Box 45027
Newark, N.J. 07101
Those unable to attend may submit written comments until April 2.