2019 Hawaii Revised Statutes
TITLE 26. TRADE REGULATION AND PRACTICE
481P. Telemarketing Fraud Prevention Act
481P-3 Abusive telemarketing acts or practices.

§481P-3 Abusive telemarketing acts or practices. It is an abusive telemarketing act or practice and a violation of this chapter for any seller or telephone solicitor to engage in the following conduct:

(1) Threaten, intimidate, or use profane or obscene language;

(2) Request a fee to remove derogatory information from or to improve a consumer's credit history or credit record until:

(A) The time frame in which the seller or telephone solicitor has represented that all of the goods or services will be provided to that consumer has expired; and

(B) The seller or telephone solicitor has provided the consumer with documentation in the form of a credit report from a credit reporting agency demonstrating that the promised results have been achieved, the report having been issued more than six months after the results were achieved. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to affect the requirement of section 604 of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. section 1681b, that a consumer report may only be obtained for a specified permissible purpose;

(3) Request or receive payment from a consumer to recover or otherwise aid in the return of money or any other item lost by the consumer in a telemarketing transaction, until seven business days after the money or other item is delivered to the consumer;

(4) Request or actually receive payment of any fee in advance of obtaining a loan or other extension of credit when a high likelihood of success has been represented to the consumer by the seller or telephone solicitor;

(5) Cause the telephone to ring more than ten times in an outbound telephone call;

(6) Engage any consumer repeatedly or continuously with behavior a reasonable person would deem to be annoying, abusive, or harassing;

(7) Initiate an outbound telephone call to a consumer, when the person has stated previously that the consumer does not wish to receive telephone calls from that seller or telephone solicitor; provided that the seller or telephone solicitor will not be liable for violating this paragraph if:

(A) It has established and implemented written procedures to comply with this paragraph, which procedures shall meet the minimum standards set forth in 47 C.F.R. section 64.1200(e)(2);

(B) It has trained its personnel in the procedures established pursuant to subparagraph (A);

(C) The seller, or telephone solicitor acting on behalf of the seller, has maintained and recorded lists of persons who may not be contacted in compliance with this paragraph; and

(D) The call is the result of error; or

(8) Initiate an outbound telephone call to a consumer's residence at any time other than between 8:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. local time at the location of the consumer called. [L 1999, c 170, pt of §1; am L 2008, c 19, §38]