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Automatic Dialing-Announcing Devices Act

Nebraska ADAD Act

Marketing · Communications

This law regulates robocalls and junk faxes in Nebraska. Sellers must obtain a Public Service Commission permit for each autodialer used for solicitations, may not robocall emergency lines, hospital rooms, cell phones, or pagers, must identify themselves, respect calling hours, and keep an internal do-not-call list.

Where
Nebraska
Citation
Neb. Rev. Stat. 86-236 to 86-257
Status
In force
Enforced by
Nebraska Public Service Commission
People can sue
No
Penalties
Commission investigations, ex parte cease-and-desist orders, permit suspension or revocation, and administrative fines under 75-156 (86-253, 86-257); devices may be seized (86-254).
Applies to
  • Persons who use automatic dialing-announcing devices (prerecorded or automated calls) to make telephone solicitations or other messages to Nebraska telephone lines (86-242, 86-244, 86-256)
  • Senders of unsolicited advertisements to fax machines (86-245)
  • Telephone solicitation excludes calls with prior express permission, calls to existing business relationships, tax-exempt nonprofits, noncommercial calls, and live-operator calls without prerecorded messages (86-242(2))

What a privacy notice must say

  • Identify the caller at the start of each automated message and give a callback number or address.Neb. Rev. Stat. 86-247; 86-256(2)

Practices it requires

  • Do not make autodialed solicitations to emergency lines, hospital or care-facility rooms, cellular, paging, or other called-party-pays numbers.Neb. Rev. Stat. 86-244
  • Do not send unsolicited advertisements to fax machines.Neb. Rev. Stat. 86-245
  • Make autodialed solicitations to residential lines only between 8 a.m. and 9 p.m., and maintain a written do-not-call policy, train staff, record and honor do-not-call requests, and get consent before sharing a subscriber's do-not-call request with non-affiliates.Neb. Rev. Stat. 86-248
  • Do not engage two or more lines of a multiline business system simultaneously or use sequential dialing.Neb. Rev. Stat. 86-246; 86-251

Registration

  • Obtain a Public Service Commission permit ($500 per device) before operating an automatic dialing-announcing device for telephone solicitations; register non-solicitation devices without fee.Neb. Rev. Stat. 86-250(1); 86-256(1)

Sources

Checked against these sources on 2026-09-25 by research agent (Claude), primary sources.

Unverified: effective_date null: originally Laws 1993, LB 305, recodified by LB1105 (2002); original effective date not confirmed. Sections 86-242 and 86-247 were last amended by LB720 (2008); date not confirmed.

Research reference, not legal advice.