---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 C.F.R. § 316.5"
title: "16"
number: "316.5"
heading: "Prohibition on charging a fee or imposing other requirements on recipients who wish to opt out."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/16/316.5"
---

# §316.5. Prohibition on charging a fee or imposing other requirements on recipients who wish to opt out.


Neither a sender nor any person acting on behalf of a sender may require that any recipient pay any fee, provide any information other than the recipient's electronic mail address and opt-out preferences, or take any other steps except sending a reply electronic mail message or visiting a single Internet Web page, in order to:

- (a) Use a return electronic mail address or other Internet-based mechanism, required by [15 U.S.C. 7704(a)(3)](/usc/15/7704.md?p=a-3), to submit a request not to receive future commercial electronic mail messages from a sender; or
- (b) Have such a request honored as required by 15 U.S.C. [7704(a)(3)(B)](/usc/15/7704.md?p=a-3-B) and [(a)(4)](/usc/15/7704.md?p=a-a-4).

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 7701-7713.

### Source

Source: 73 FR 29677, May 21, 2008, unless otherwise noted.