Nevada Do Not Call List: Registration, Calling Hours, and Penalties

To get on the Nevada Do Not Call list, register your home or mobile number for free at donotcall.gov or by calling 1-888-382-1222 from the phone you want to protect. Nevada uses the National Do Not Call Registry as its official state list, so that single registration covers you under both federal and Nevada law.¹

How to Register

Both methods take about two minutes. Online, you enter the number and an email address, then confirm through a link the FTC sends you. By phone, you call from the line you want registered and follow the prompts. There is no fee, and registration never expires. The FTC removes a number only if it gets disconnected and reassigned, or if you ask for removal.²

You do not need to fill out a separate Nevada form. State law under NRS 228.540 authorized the Attorney General to evaluate the federal registry and adopt it as Nevada’s official list, which is what happened. The Nevada-specific portion of the national database is now the state registry.³

When the Calls Should Stop

Your number appears on the registry the next day, but expect up to 31 days before sales calls actually stop. Telemarketers are only required to refresh their calling lists against the registry every 31 days, so a company working from a list it downloaded three weeks ago can still legally call you until it pulls a new one.²

If sales calls are still coming through after that 31-day window, those are now potential violations you can report.

What the List Blocks

NRS 228.590 prohibits telephone solicitors from intentionally calling any number on the registry to sell goods or services. That covers live sales pitches and automated robocalls alike.⁴

What Can Still Reach You

Several categories of calls are not treated as sales solicitations and will keep coming through:¹

Charitable, religious, and political calls, when the caller is a paid employee or volunteer of the organization itself. If a charity hires an outside telemarketing firm, that exemption drops away under NRS 228.530.³
Companies you have an existing business relationship with. A business you bought from can call you for up to 18 months after your last purchase, delivery, or payment. If you only made an inquiry or submitted an application, that window is three months.⁵
Debt collectors. A call about money you owe is not a sales call.
Surveys and informational calls that do not try to sell you anything.

Even for allowed callers, you can tell any specific company to stop calling you. Once you ask, they have to honor it regardless of any exemption.²

Nevada’s Stricter Calling Hours

Federal rules prohibit sales calls before 8 a.m. and after 9 p.m. in your local time zone. Nevada is tighter for residential lines: a telephone solicitor may not call you at home between 8 p.m. and 9 a.m.⁶ A sales call to your home phone at 8:30 p.m. may be fine under federal law but still violates Nevada law.

Nevada also prohibits solicitors from blocking their caller ID or placing calls that do not transmit the caller’s phone number or business name. A sales call that shows up as “Unknown” or “Blocked” is itself a violation, separate from whether your number is on the registry.

If the Calls Keep Coming

After the 31-day window, you have two reporting paths worth using together.

For federal complaints, use the form at donotcall.gov or call 1-888-382-1222. Have ready your phone number, the number that showed on your caller ID (even if you suspect it was spoofed), any callback number given, and the date and time of the call.²

For state complaints, file through the Nevada Attorney General’s website at ag.nv.gov under the complaint tab. This matters especially if the caller used threatening language, called during Nevada’s restricted hours, or blocked their caller ID, because those are specific Nevada violations the FTC does not enforce.⁶

Filing with both is worth the few extra minutes. The two agencies pursue different enforcement actions, and your report adds to the pattern evidence they need to build a case.

What You Can Recover Personally

The federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act gives you a private right to sue. For each illegal call, you can recover $500 or your actual loss, whichever is greater. If a court finds the violation was willful, it can triple that to $1,500 per call.⁷ On the enforcement side, the FTC can impose civil penalties of up to $53,088 per violation, and the Nevada Attorney General can treat any registry violation as a deceptive trade practice under state law, with the full range of remedies that opens up.⁸

What the List Will Not Do

The registry stops legitimate telemarketers who follow the law. It does nothing about scammers who ignore it, and most of the robocalls people complain about today come from the second group. A few additional tools help with those.

Most phone carriers now offer built-in call-blocking features or apps that filter suspected spam before your phone rings. The FCC recommends contacting your carrier to see what is available and checking your device’s app store for call-blocking apps.⁹ Carriers are also required to use STIR/SHAKEN, a caller ID authentication system that flags or blocks spoofed numbers before they reach you.¹⁰ It is not perfect, but it catches a lot.

If you get a spam text, forward it to 7726 (SPAM). Most carriers use that number to collect reports and tune their filters.

1
Federal Trade Commission. National Do Not Call Registry
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Consumer Advice. National Do Not Call Registry FAQs
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Nevada Legislature. Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 228 – Attorney General
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Nevada Legislature. Nevada Revised Statutes 228.590 – Calls Prohibited to Telephone Numbers in Registry
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Federal Trade Commission. Q&A for Telemarketers and Sellers About DNC Provisions in TSR
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Nevada Attorney General. Fight Robocalls
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Office of the Law Revision Counsel. 47 USC 227 – Restrictions on Use of Telephone Equipment
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Federal Register. Adjustments to Civil Penalty Amounts
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Federal Communications Commission. Stop Unwanted Robocalls and Texts
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Federal Communications Commission. Combating Spoofed Robocalls with Caller ID Authentication