2016 Wyoming Code
TITLE 40 - TRADE AND COMMERCE
CHAPTER 12 - CONSUMER PROTECTION
ARTICLE 3 - TELEPHONE SOLICITATION
SECTION 40-12-301 - Definitions.

40-12-301. Definitions.

(a) As used in this article:

(i) "Caller identification service" means a type of telephone service or system which allows telephone subscribers to see the telephone numbers from which incoming telephone calls are dialed;

(ii) "Consumer" means an actual or prospective purchaser, lessee or recipient of consumer goods or services;

(iii) "Consumer goods or services" means any real property or any tangible or intangible personal property or any services which are marketed and intended to be used for personal, family or household purposes, including, without limitation, any such property intended to be attached to or installed in any real property without regard to whether it is so attached or installed, as well as cemetery lots and timeshare estates;

(iv) "Doing business in this state" refers to businesses which conduct telephonic sales calls from a location in Wyoming or from other states or nations to consumers located in Wyoming;

(v) "Enforcing authority" means the Wyoming attorney general;

(vi) "Established business relationship" means a prior or existing relationship formed by a voluntary two-way communication between a seller or telephone solicitor and a consumer with or without an exchange of consideration, on the basis of an inquiry, application, purchase or transaction by the consumer regarding products or services offered by such seller or telephone solicitor which relationship has not been previously terminated by either party;

(vii) "Merchant" means a person who, directly or indirectly, offers or makes available to consumers any consumer goods or services;

(viii) "National do-not-call list" means the list maintained by the Telephone Preference Service of the Direct Marketing Association, Inc., Farmingdale, New York, or its successor organization;

(ix) "Telephonic sales call" means a call made by a telephone solicitor to a consumer, for the purpose of soliciting a sale of any consumer goods or services, for the purpose of soliciting an extension of credit for consumer goods or services, or for the purpose of obtaining information that will or may be used for the direct solicitation of a sale of consumer goods or services or an extension of credit for such purposes;

(x) "Telephone solicitor" means any natural person, business entity or a subsidiary or affiliate thereof, doing business in this state, who makes or causes to be made a telephonic sales call, including, but not limited to, calls made by use of automated dialing devices;

(xi) "Unpublished cellular telephone number" means a cellular telephone number:

(A) That has not been requested by the subscriber to be published in any telephone directory or any list of telephone service subscribers; and

(B) Whose prefix or telephone number has been determined by the public service commission to be primarily for cellular telephone service.

(xii) "Unsolicited telephonic sales call" means a telephonic sales call other than a call made:

(A) In response to an express request of the person called;

(B) Primarily in connection with an existing debt or contract, payment or performance of which has not been completed at the time of the call;

(C) To any person with whom the telephone solicitor had an established business relationship; or

(D) By a telephone solicitor or merchant making less than two hundred twenty-five (225) unsolicited calls per year.