Privacy Law Library

Automatic Dialing-Announcing Devices and Telephone Solicitation Hours

MN ADAD Law

Marketing · Communications

Bars robocalls using prerecorded or synthesized voice messages unless the subscriber consented or a live operator first obtains consent, requires live operators to identify the caller and the call's purpose, and requires devices to disconnect within ten seconds after the subscriber hangs up. It also bans commercial telephone solicitations and robocalls before 9 a.m. or after 9 p.m. Minnesota's separate state do-not-call list statute (325E.311 to 325E.316) has expired.

Where
Minnesota
Citation
Minn. Stat. 325E.26 to 325E.31
Status
In force
Enforced by
Minnesota Attorney General; private actions for damages via 8.31 (325E.31)
People can sue
Yes
Penalties
Violators are subject to the remedies of 8.31, including a private right of action for damages, and the Attorney General may recover a civil penalty set by the court of up to $50,000 (325E.31).
Applies to
  • Callers using automatic dialing-announcing devices (prerecorded or synthesized voice messages) to call Minnesota telephone subscribers (325E.27 to 325E.29)
  • Anyone making commercial telephone solicitations (time-of-day limit, 325E.30)
  • Exempt from the consent and time rules: school district messages, messages to subscribers with a current business or personal relationship, and employee work-schedule messages; certain nonprofit charitable solicitations are exempt from the consent rule (325E.27(b))

What a privacy notice must say

  • A live operator introducing a recorded message must first disclose the entity calling, the purpose, the goods or services promoted, and any request for payment.Minn. Stat. 325E.29

Practices it requires

  • Do not use an automatic dialing-announcing device unless the subscriber knowingly consented or a live operator first obtains consent before the message plays.Minn. Stat. 325E.27(a)
  • Devices must disconnect within ten seconds after the subscriber ends the call.Minn. Stat. 325E.28
  • Do not use an automatic dialing-announcing device or make any commercial telephone solicitation before 9:00 a.m. or after 9:00 p.m.Minn. Stat. 325E.30

Sources

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

Unverified: 325E.31 was amended by Laws 2023, ch. 57, art. 4, s. 9 (likely adding the $50,000 civil penalty); the amendment's effective date was not confirmed, so last_amended is null. | Original effective date (Laws 1987, ch. 294) not verified.

Research reference, not legal advice.