Texas Business & Commerce Code - Section 44.051. Prohibition On Interference With Caller Identification Service
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§ 44.051. PROHIBITION ON INTERFERENCE WITH CALLER
IDENTIFICATION SERVICE. (a) A telemarketer may not, in making a
telemarketing call, block the identity of the telephone number from
which the telephone call is made to evade devices designed to
identify telephone callers.
(b) A telemarketer may not:
(1) interfere with or circumvent the capability of a
caller identification service to access or provide to the recipient
of the telemarketing call any information regarding the call that
the service is capable of providing; and
(2) fail to provide caller identification information
in a manner that is accessible by a caller identification service,
if the person has capability to provide the information in that
manner.
(c) For purposes of this section, the use of
telecommunications service or equipment that is incapable of
transmitting caller identification information does not of itself
constitute interference with or circumvention of the capability of
a caller identification service to access or provide the
information.
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1429, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 2002.
Renumbered from V.T.C.A., Bus. & C. Code § 43.051 by Acts 2003,
78th Leg., ch. 1275, § 2(3), eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
Section: 43.021 44.001 44.002 44.003 44.004 44.005 44.006 44.051 44.052 44.101 44.102 44.103 44.104 44.151 44.152
Last modified: August 11, 2007
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