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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
Universal Citation: GA Code § 46-5-187 (2017)
- 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:
- (1) Threats, intimidation, or the use of profane or obscene language;
- (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
- (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.
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