Minnesota
What Minnesota's rule says
What are the calling hours in Minnesota?
In Minnesota, commercial telephone solicitations and automatic dialing-announcing device calls are allowed only from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. The rule is Minn. Stat. § 325E.30, and the morning start is an hour later than the federal 8 a.m.
A 'commercial telephone solicitation' in Minnesota is an unsolicited call to a residential subscriber with whom the caller has no prior business or personal relationship, so warm leads and existing customers are outside the window; cold lists are inside it.
Prerecorded-device calls get the same 9 a.m.–9 p.m. window and also need the subscriber's consent before the message plays (§ 325E.27).
Who the rule covers
Minnesota's window applies on top of the federal 8 a.m.–9 p.m. rules; where both apply, follow the narrower one.
- Covers: any automatic dialing-announcing device call, and unsolicited calls to residential subscribers with no prior business or personal relationship.
- Not covered: calls to people you already have a business or personal relationship with; listed charities.
Minnesota's rules and where they come from
Calling hours (Minn. Stat. § 325E.30): Automatic dialing-announcing device calls and commercial telephone solicitations only between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m.
The statutes and regulator pages are linked under 'Statutes, regulators and sources' below.
Do Minnesota's calling hours apply to texts?
Minnesota's hours rule doesn't address texts. No state rule for texts. The FCC's rule applies its 8 a.m.–9 p.m. limit to marketing texts sent to cell phones (47 CFR 64.1200(e)); courts are split on whether people can sue over it.
Time zones and area codes in Minnesota
Minnesota is on one clock: Central.
Area codes in Minnesota: 218, 320, 507, 612, 651, 763, 924, 952. A number's area code is a clue to where the person is, not proof: people keep their numbers when they move.
Calling Minnesota from TopReach
TopReach smart lists only dial a lead inside the legal window in their own time zone (weekdays 9 a.m.–9 p.m., weekends 10 a.m.–6 p.m.) and skip statutory holidays, and a rep calling a lead outside their hours is asked to confirm first. They don't apply Minnesota's own rule for you. To stay inside it, set your workspace's quiet hours from 9 p.m. to 9 a.m..
Recording calls into Minnesota: One-party consent: you can record a call you're on. TopReach records only when your workspace policy says so (never, always, or the rep's choice), and it doesn't play a recording announcement for you, so reps say it at the start of the call where consent is needed.
