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June 12, 2006
VIA CERTIFIED MAIL
RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED
AND FACSIMILE
Red Rose International, LTD
dba Blue Jay Inc
Attn: Neil Luxenberg, President, Secretary, and Treasurer
Neil Law, Manager, Owner, President, Sales Executive
Shaun M. Luxenberg, President
4550 Ziebart Place
Las Vegas, NV 89103
Red Rose International, LTD
dba Blue Jay Inc
Attn: Neil Luxenberg, President
Neil Law, Manager, Owner, President, Sales Executive
Shaun M. Luxenberg, President
4057 Delos Drive
Las Vegas, NV 89103
Blue Jay Sales Corporation
Attn: Neil Luxenberg, President, Secretary, and Treasurer
P.O. Box 70477
Las Vegas, NV 89170-0477
Blue Jay Sales Corporation
Attn: Neil Luxenberg, President, Secretary and Treasurer
4057 Delos Drive
Las Vegas, NV 89103-2537
Nationwide Chemical Corporation
Attn: Neil Luxenberg, Director, President, Secretary and Treasurer
9850 S. Maryland Parkway, Suite A5-102
Las Vegas, NV 89123-7146
Nuts, Inc.
Attn: Neil Luxenberg, President
4057 Delos Drive
Las Vegas, NV 89103-2537
Red Rose Sales & Marketing Corporation
Attn: Neil Luxenberg, Director, President, Secretary, and Treasurer
4057 Delos Drive
Las Vegas, NV 89103-2537
Red Rose USA Inc
Attn: Neil Luxenberg, President
4057 Delos Drive
Las Vegas, NV 89103
Transtar Corporation
Attn: Neil Luxenberg, President and Treasurer
4550 Ziebart Place, Suite B
Las Vegas, NV 89103
Off Broadway Theatres, Inc.
Attn: Neil Luxenberg, President
4057 Delos Drive
Las Vegas, NV 89103-2537
Neil Luxenberg
4550 Ziebart Place
Las Vegas, NV 89103
RE: EB-06-TC-113
Dear Mr. Neil Luxenberg, Mr. Neil Law, and Mr. Shaun Luxenberg:
This is an official CITATION, issued pursuant to section 503(b)(5) of the
Communications Act of 1934, as amended (the Act), 47 U.S.C. S 503(b)(5),
for violations of the Act and the Federal Communications Commission's
rules that govern telephone solicitations and unsolicited advertisements.
As explained below, future violations of the Act or Commission's rules in
this regard may subject you and your company to monetary forfeitures.
It has come to our attention that your company, acting under your
direction, apparently sent one or more unsolicited advertisements to
telephone facsimile machines in violation of Section 227(b)(1)(C) of the
Communications Act, as described in the attached complaint(s). Section
227(b)(1)(C) makes it "unlawful for any person within the United States,
or any person outside the United States if the recipient is within the
United States . . . to use a telephone facsimile machine, computer, or
other device to send an unsolicited advertisement to a telephone facsimile
machine." The term "unsolicited advertisement" is defined in the Act and
the Commission's rules as "any material advertising the commercial
availability or quality of any property, goods, or services which is
transmitted to any person without that person's prior express invitation
or permission." Under Commission rules and orders currently in effect, the
Commission considers an established business relationship between a fax
sender and recipient to constitute prior express invitation or permission
to send a facsimile advertisement. Mere distribution or publication of a
fax number, however, does not establish consent to receive advertisements
by fax.
If, after receipt of this citation, you or your company violate the
Communications Act or the Commission's rules in any manner described
herein, the Commission may impose monetary forfeitures not to exceed
$11,000 for each such violation or each day of a continuing violation.
You may respond to this citation within 30 days from the date of this
letter either through (1) a personal interview at the Commission's Field
Office nearest to your place of business, (2) a written statement, or (3)
a teleconference interview with the Commission's Telecommunications
Consumers Division in Washington, DC. Your response should specify the
actions that you are taking to ensure that you do not violate the
Commission's rules governing telephone solicitation and unsolicited
advertisements, as described above.
The nearest Commission field office appears to be the Los Angeles, CA;
however, please contact Al McCloud at (202) 418-2499 if you wish to
schedule a personal interview. You should schedule any interview to take
place within 30 days of the date of this letter. You should send any
written statement within 30 days of the date of this letter to:
Kurt A. Schroeder
Deputy Chief
Telecommunications Consumers Division
Enforcement Bureau
Federal Communications Commission
445-12^th Street, S.W., Rm. 4-C222
Washington, D.C. 20554
Reference EB-06-TC-113 when corresponding with the Commission.
Reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities are available upon
request. Include a description of the accommodation you will need
including as much detail as you can. Also include a way we can contact you
if we need more information. Please allow at least 5 days advance notice;
last minute requests will be accepted, but may be impossible to fill. Send
an e-mail to [1]fcc504@fcc.gov or call the Consumer & Governmental Affairs
Bureau:
For sign language interpreters, CART, and other reasonable accommodations:
202-418-0530 (voice), 202-418-0432 (tty);
For accessible format materials (braille, large print, electronic files,
and audio
format): 202-418-0531 (voice), 202-418-7365 (tty).
Under the Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. S 552(a)(e)(3), we are informing
you that the Commission's staff will use all relevant material information
before it, including information that you disclose in your interview or
written statement, to determine what, if any, enforcement action is
required to ensure your compliance with the Communications Act and the
Commission's rules.
The knowing and willful making of any false statement, or the concealment
of any material fact, in reply to this citation is punishable by fine or
imprisonment under 18 U.S.C. S 1001.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation.
Sincerely,
Kurt A. Schroeder
Deputy Chief, Telecommunications Consumers Division
Enforcement Bureau
Federal Communications Commission
Enclosures
Copy to Registered Agent:
Jeffrey J. Whitehead, Esq.
2431 W. Horizon Ridge Parkway, #110
Henderson, NV 89052
47 U.S.C. S 227; 47 C.F.R. S 64.1200. A copy of these provisions is
enclosed for your convenience. Section 227 was added to the Communications
Act by the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 and is most commonly
known as the TCPA. The TCPA and the Commission's parallel rules restrict a
variety of practices that are associated with telephone solicitation and
use of the telephone network to deliver unsolicited advertisements,
including fax advertising.
We have attached the 8 complaints at issue in this citation. At least 91
additional similar complaints are not attached but are available from the
FCC's complaint database.
47 U.S.C. S 227(b)(1)(C); see also 47 C.F.R. S 64.1200(a)(3) (providing
that no person or entity may . . . use a telephone facsimile machine,
computer, or other device to send an unsolicited advertisement to a
telephone facsimile machine). Both the TCPA and the Commission's rules
define "telephone facsimile machine" as "equipment which has the capacity
to transcribe text or images, or both, from paper into an electronic
signal and to transmit that signal over a regular telephone line, or to
transcribe text or images (or both) from an electronic signal received
over a regular telephone line onto paper." 47 U.S.C. S 227(a)(2); 47
C.F.R. S 64.1200(f)(8). The Commission has stated that "[t]he TCPA's
definition of `telephone facsimile machine' broadly applies to any
equipment that has the capacity to send or receive text or images." Thus,
"faxes sent to personal computers equipped with, or attached to, modems
and to computerized fax servers are subject to the TCPA's prohibition on
unsolicited faxes. . . [although] the prohibition does not extend to
facsimile messages sent as email over the Internet." Rules and Regulations
Implementing the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991, Report and
Order, 18 FCC Rcd 14014, 14131-32 (2003) (2003 TCPA Report and Order).
47 U.S.C. S 227(a)(4); 47 C.F.R. S 64.1200(f)(10).
See Rules and Regulations Implementing the Telephone Consumer Protection
Act of 1991, Memorandum Opinion and Order, 10 FCC Rcd 12391, 12405 (1995)
(1995 TCPA Reconsideration Order); see also Rules and Regulations
Implementing the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991, Order, FCC
05-132 (rel. June 27, 2005). Under the recently enacted Junk Fax
Prevention Act of 2005, Pub. L. 109-21, 119 Stat. 359 (2005), Congress
amended the Communications Act to specify, among other things, the
conditions under which an established business relationship provides an
exception to the prohibition on unsolicited fax advertising.
1995 Reconsideration Order, 10 FCC Rcd at 12408-09; see also 2003 TCPA
Report and Order, 18 FCC Rcd at 14128 (concluding that mere publication of
a fax number in a trade publication or directory does not demonstrate
consent to receive fax advertising).
Federal Communications Commission DA 06-1258
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20554
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