Missouri Laws 407.1138 – Prohibited acts — rulemaking authority, attorney general
1. It shall be a violation of this section for any person or entity who initiates the transmission of any commercial electronic mail message to any subscriber in this state to provide a false identity or false or misleading information in the subject line.
2. It shall be a violation of this section for any person that sends an unsolicited commercial electronic mail message to fail to use the exact characters “ADV:” as the first four characters in the subject line of the unsolicited commercial electronic mail message.
Terms Used In Missouri Laws 407.1138
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
- State: when applied to any of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020
3. It shall be a violation of this section for any person that sends an unsolicited commercial electronic mail message that contains obscene material as defined in section 573.010 or references a website that contains obscene material to fail to use the exact characters “ADV:ADLT” as the first eight characters in the subject line of the unsolicited commercial electronic mail message that contains obscene material.
4. It shall be a violation of this section to initiate the transmission of any unsolicited commercial electronic mail to a subscriber in this state who has notified a sender not to initiate the transmission of any further unsolicited commercial electronic mail. For purposes of this subsection, a subscriber is deemed to have notified a sender not to initiate the transmission of any further unsolicited commercial electronic mail if the subscriber:
(1) Replies to a sender at the valid sender-operated return electronic mail address or the sender’s toll-free telephone number with directions not to initiate the transmission of any further unsolicited commercial electronic mail as provided in section 407.1123; or
(2) Otherwise gives actual notice to a sender not to initiate the transmission of further unsolicited commercial electronic mail; or
(3) Notifies the attorney general if a sender fails to provide a toll-free telephone number or valid sender-operated return electronic mail address as required by section 407.1123.
5. The attorney general shall promulgate rules and regulations as he or she deems necessary and appropriate to fully implement the provisions of sections 407.1135 to 407.1141.