2009 California Business and Professions Code - Section 22600 :: Chapter 22.5. Commercial Directories

22600.  (a) Every publisher shall, prior to including a telephone
number for a facsimile machine in any commercial directory of
telephone numbers, obtain the written consent of the subscriber who
has been assigned the number unless the telephone number for the
facsimile machine is obtained from a telephone corporation's
alphabetical or classified directory of telephone numbers.
   (b) As used in this section:
   (1) "Commercial directory" does not include an alphabetical
directory of telephone numbers or a classified directory published by
a telephone corporation.
   (2) "Telephone number for a facsimile machine" means any number
designated in a directory as being for a facsimile machine or any
number included in a directory represented to be a directory of
telephone numbers for facsimile machines.
   (c)  Every publisher shall notify, in writing, all of the
subscribers of the facsimile telephone numbers printed in the
publisher's directory of the requirements of this chapter on or
before April 1, 1991. Unless the subscriber thereafter notifies the
publisher otherwise, telephone numbers for facsimile machines
published prior to July 1, 1991, without the written consent of the
subscriber, may continue to be published by that publisher. Upon
notification by the subscriber that he or she desires to be excluded
from the directory, all subsequent volumes of the directory shall
exclude the subscriber's facsimile telephone number.
   (d) Every violation of subdivision (a) is an infraction punishable
by a fine of five hundred dollars ($500).