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Title 46. PUBLIC UTILITIES AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION · Chapter 5. TELEPHONE SERVICE · Article 5. TELECOMMUNICATIONS MARKETING ACT OF 1998

46-5-187. Abusive telemarketing acts or practices.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.

  1. Telecommunications companies may not engage in any abusive telemarketing act or practice. Each instance of engaging in an abusive act or practice shall constitute a separate violation of this article. Abusive telemarketing acts or practices shall include but not be limited to the following conduct:

  2. (1)

    Threats, intimidation, or the use of profane or obscene language;#

  3. (2)

    Causing any telephone to ring, or engaging any person in telephone conversation, repeatedly or continuously with intent to annoy, abuse, or harass any person called at that number; and#

  4. (3)

    Engaging in outbound telephone calls to a person’s residence at any time other than between 8:00 A.M. and 9:00 P.M. local time at the called person’s residence unless such person has consented prior to the initiation of the call.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 46-5-187, enacted by Ga. L. 1998, p. 919, § 1.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.

Text read from t46-(v34)-2025-pdf.pdf, Volume V34, 2025 edition, page 649; merge action: bound only; file SHA-256 53ab60ae5027.