---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 5714"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "5714"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/5714"
units:
  - "Chapter 83 — Telephone Disclosure and Dispute Resolution"
  - "Subchapter I — Regulation of Unfair and Deceptive Acts and Practices in Connection with Pay-Per-Call Services"
---

# §5714. Definitions


For purposes of this subchapter:

- (1) The term “pay-per-call services” has the meaning provided in [section 228(i) of title 47](/usc/47/228.md?p=i), except that the [Commission](#4) by rule may, notwithstanding subparagraphs (B) and (C) of [section 228(i)(1) of title 47](/usc/47/228.md?p=i-1), extend such definition to other similar services providing audio information or audio entertainment if the [Commission](#4) determines that such services are susceptible to the unfair and deceptive practices that are prohibited by the rules prescribed pursuant to [section 5711(a) of this title](/usc/15/5711.md?p=a).
- (2) The term “attorney general” means the chief legal officer of a [State](#3).
- (3) The term “State” means any State of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, and any territory or possession of the United States.
- (4) The term “Commission” means the Federal Trade Commission.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–556, title II, § 204, Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 4191; Pub. L. 104–104, title VII, § 701(b)(1), Feb. 8, 1996, 110 Stat. 147.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1996—Par. (1). Pub. L. 104–104 amended par. (1) generally. Prior to amendment, par. (1) read as follows: “The term ‘pay-per-call services’ has the meaning provided in section 228 of title 47.”