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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.

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