{
  "id": "OPS-047",
  "slug": "ops-047",
  "title": "A state may give you less time than the federal limit",
  "statement": "Where the recipient's state sets a shorter cure window for ceasing text solicitations, that window applies instead of the federal maximum.",
  "rationale": "Florida requires solicitations to cease within fifteen days of a stop reply, and its statute carries a private right of action — so the state window is not a compliance detail, it is the one with a plaintiff attached. A national programme sized to the federal ten business days is inside the law almost everywhere and outside it for a subset of recipients it cannot identify without a state lookup.",
  "layer": "OPERATIONAL",
  "layerSlug": "operational",
  "object": "suppression latency against the recipient state",
  "severity": "HIGH",
  "detectability": [
    "UNDETECTABLE_PRE_SUBMISSION"
  ],
  "failureClass": "TERMINAL_EXTERNAL",
  "authorities": [
    "state law (FL)"
  ],
  "applicabilityText": "Applies to every 10DLC registration.",
  "universal": true,
  "remediation": "Suppress immediately as the standard behaviour, which clears every state window at once, and reserve any delay for cases where a system genuinely cannot act in real time. Done when the slowest suppression path is measured in minutes rather than days.",
  "notes": "Needs the recipient's state, which is not the area code and which we do not hold. What the user has to do is either suppress immediately everywhere — much the simpler answer — or hold a per-state window table and the location data to use it. OPS-100 is the umbrella that table belongs to.",
  "phase": "post",
  "automated": false,
  "attestation": {
    "question": "Is your slowest suppression path measured in minutes rather than days?",
    "howToCheck": [
      "Measure the slowest route — usually a manual or batch channel, not the keyword handler.",
      "Suppress immediately everywhere: that clears every state window at once and is much the simpler answer.",
      "The alternative is a per-state window table plus the location data to use it, and the area code is not the recipient's state."
    ],
    "failureLooksLike": "A national programme sized to the federal ten business days is inside the law almost everywhere and outside it in Florida, whose fifteen-day statute carries a private right of action."
  },
  "url": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/operational/ops-047/",
  "markdown": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/operational/ops-047.md",
  "registry": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/",
  "updated": "2026-07-25",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}