Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihldt.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihldt!kah From: kah@ihldt.UUCP (Kurt Hedlund) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Junk Phone Calls and Solicitations Message-ID: <2273@ihldt.UUCP> Date: Wed, 7-Mar-84 13:58:00 EST Article-I.D.: ihldt.2273 Posted: Wed Mar 7 13:58:00 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 8-Mar-84 08:44:43 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 22 There are laws that can prohibit specific types of solicitations. The one that I'm most familiar with is an Illinois state law that prohibits real estate solicitation. The law was designed to help stem panic peddling in changing neighborhoods. The law covers all forms of solicitation, i.e. telephone, door to door or mail. The catch is the solicitor must be served with a list of those people who do not want to be solicited beforehand. Normally community organizations compile a list of neighborhood residents not wishing to be solicited then presents them to all the local real estate brokers. If a broker solicits a person on the list in any way, the broker can be charged with a felony. However I've never heard of individuals using this law. Kurt Hedlund (..ihldt!kah)