---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 7710"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "7710"
heading: "Improving enforcement by providing rewards for information about violations; labeling"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/7710"
units:
  - "Chapter 103 — Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing"
---

# §7710. Improving enforcement by providing rewards for information about violations; labeling


The [Commission](/usc/15/7702.md?p=3) shall transmit to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce—

- (1) a report, within 9 months after December 16, 2003, that sets forth a system for rewarding those who supply information about violations of this chapter, including—
  - (A) procedures for the [Commission](/usc/15/7702.md?p=3) to grant a reward of not less than 20 percent of the total civil penalty collected for a violation of this chapter to the first [person](/usc/15/7a.md?p=6) that—
    - (i) identifies the [person](/usc/15/7a.md?p=6) in violation of this chapter; and
    - (ii) supplies information that leads to the successful collection of a civil penalty by the [Commission](/usc/15/7702.md?p=3); and
  - (B) procedures to minimize the burden of submitting a complaint to the [Commission](/usc/15/7702.md?p=3) concerning violations of this chapter, including procedures to allow the electronic submission of complaints to the [Commission](/usc/15/7702.md?p=3); and
- (2) a report, within 18 months after December 16, 2003, that sets forth a plan for requiring commercial electronic mail to be identifiable from its subject line, by means of compliance with [Internet](/usc/15/7702.md?p=10) Engineering Task Force Standards, the use of the characters “ADV” in the subject line, or other comparable identifier, or an explanation of any concerns the [Commission](/usc/15/7702.md?p=3) has that cause the [Commission](/usc/15/7702.md?p=3) to recommend against the plan.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 108–187, § 11, Dec. 16, 2003, 117 Stat. 2717.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in par. (1), was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 108–187, Dec. 16, 2003, 117 Stat. 2699, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 7701 of this title and Tables.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Jan. 1, 2004, see section 16 of Pub. L. 108–187, set out as a note under section 7701 of this title.