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Louisiana telephone solicitation rules

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Louisiana, United States

Rule id
calls.us-la
Version
1.0.0
In force from
August 15, 2001
Last read against its sources
August 5, 2026
Countries bound
United States

In plain language

What this regime says.

Louisiana telephone solicitation rules is a state analogue to the federal TCPA. Louisiana runs a state do-not-call list administered by the Public Service Commission, with penalties per violation imposed by the Commission.

Who is covered

People receiving unwanted marketing calls or texts on a Louisiana number.

What you get

No confirmed private right of action. The route is a complaint to the state regulator or Attorney General.

Where claims go wrong

  • Assuming the state statute has the same elements as the federal one. Several deliberately do not, in both directions.
The official claim route

Authority

Every citation,
with its pinpoint.

A claim that cites “EU law” gets filed. A claim that cites Article 7(1)(c) gets answered. These are the exact coordinates this entry rests on.
  1. La. R.S. 45:844.11 et seq.Louisiana Revised Statutes, Title 45, Chapter 12URL verified 2026-08-05§ 844.11 et seq.

Sources

Where a figure is indexed, converted or published by a regulator rather than fixed in the instrument, the provenance is recorded separately. Anything marked as a modelled estimate is exactly that — a model, not a statutory number.

What it imposes

Clocks, defences and the ladder.

A rule module builds these while it evaluates, because a limitation period depends on which forum is open to you. What follows is the structure this regime produces — deliberately with no dates and no figures, because those belong to your facts rather than to the law.

The clocks it starts

  • Louisiana limitation period (4 years, assumed)We could not confirm the limitation period for this statute and have shown 4 years as a working assumption only. Do not rely on it: check the state's general period for a liability created by statute before you let time run.La. R.S. 45:844.11 et seq. — § 844.11 et seq.Limitation period

Where to take it next

  1. Written demand to the sellerRun the state claim in the same letter as the federal one. Two statutes with two damages provisions concentrate a recipient's attention considerably more than one.Claim directtypically 30 days
  2. Complain to the Louisiana regulator or Attorney GeneralThis is the primary route for this state, since we could not confirm a private right of action. State AGs and utility commissions do impose real penalties per call.Regulatortypically 90 daysofficial page

The same claim type elsewhere

EU ePrivacy Directive and GDPR (direct marketing)EUSupranational — 30 countriesDirective 2002/58/EC (ePrivacy Directive), Art. 13Confidence: mediumUK Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003GBNational — United KingdomPrivacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, regs. 19–24 and reg. 30Confidence: mediumCanada CASL and the National Do Not Call ListCANational — CanadaCanada's Anti-Spam Legislation, S.C. 2010, c. 23Confidence: mediumConnecticut telephone solicitation statuteUS-CTSub-national — United StatesConn. Gen. Stat. § 42-288aConfidence: lowFlorida Telephone Solicitation ActUS-FLSub-national — United StatesFla. Stat. § 501.059 (Florida Telephone Solicitation Act)Confidence: highIndiana telephone solicitation and autodialer statutesUS-INSub-national — United StatesInd. Code art. 24-4.7 (telephone solicitation) and Ind. Code ch. 24-5-14 (automatic dialing machines)Confidence: lowMaryland Telephone Consumer Protection ActUS-MDSub-national — United StatesMd. Code, Com. Law § 14-3201 et seq.Confidence: lowMichigan Home Solicitation Sales Act — telephone solicitationUS-MISub-national — United StatesMCL 445.111a (Home Solicitation Sales Act)Confidence: low

Other rights in the same countries

Alabama security deposit return — Ala. Code § 35-9A-201US-ALSub-national — United StatesAla. Code § 35-9A-201Confidence: mediumAlabama unclaimed property — Ala. Code §§ 35-12-70 to 35-12-99US-ALSub-national — United StatesAla. Code §§ 35-12-70 to 35-12-99Confidence: mediumAlaska security deposit return — Alaska Stat. § 34.03.070US-AKSub-national — United StatesAlaska Stat. § 34.03.070Confidence: mediumAlaska unclaimed property — Alaska Stat. §§ 34.45.110–34.45.780US-AKSub-national — United StatesAlaska Stat. §§ 34.45.110–34.45.780Confidence: mediumArizona security deposit return — A.R.S. § 33-1321US-AZSub-national — United StatesA.R.S. § 33-1321Confidence: highArizona unclaimed property — Ariz. Rev. Stat. §§ 44-301 to 44-341US-AZSub-national — United StatesAriz. Rev. Stat. §§ 44-301 to 44-341Confidence: mediumArizona surprise out-of-network bill dispute resolution (A.R.S. § 20-3111 et seq.)US-AZSub-national — United StatesA.R.S. § 20-3111 et seq.Confidence: mediumArkansas security deposit return — Ark. Code Ann. § 18-16-306US-ARSub-national — United StatesArk. Code Ann. § 18-16-306Confidence: medium

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