Code of Virginia - Title 24.2 Elections - Section 24.2-959 Requirements for campaign telephone calls sponsored by a candidate or candidate campaign committee...

§ 24.2-959. Requirements for campaign telephone calls sponsored by a candidate or candidate campaign committee...

It shall be unlawful for any candidate or candidate campaign committee to make campaign telephone calls without disclosing, before the conclusion of each telephone call, information to identify the candidate or candidate campaign committee who has authorized and is paying for the calls unless such call is terminated prematurely by means beyond the maker's control.

The person making the telephone call shall disclose the name of the candidate.

It shall also be unlawful (i) for any candidate or candidate campaign committee who contracts for campaign telephone calls to fail to provide to the persons making the telephone calls the identifying information required by this section or (ii) for any person to provide a false or fictitious name or address when providing the identifying information required.

(2000, c. 874, § 24.2-1014.1; 2006, cc. 787, 892.)

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