§ 19.250.070. Application of chapter -- Limitations
This chapter does not apply to the provision of wireless phone numbers, for the purposes indicated, to:
(1) Any law enforcement agency, fire protection agency, public health agency, public environmental health agency, city or county emergency services planning agency, or private for-profit corporation operating under contract with, and at the direction of, one or more of these agencies, for the exclusive purpose of responding to a 911 call or communicating an imminent threat to life or property. Information or records provided to a private for-profit corporation pursuant to subsection (2) of this section must be held in confidence by that corporation and by any individual employed by or associated with that corporation. Such information or records are not open to examination for any purpose not directly connected with the administration of the services specified in this subsection;
(2) A lawful process issued under state or federal law;
(3) A telecommunications company providing service between service areas for the provision of telephone services to the subscriber between service areas, or to third parties for the limited purpose of providing billing services;
(4) A telecommunications company to effectuate a customer's request to transfer the customer's assigned telephone number from the customer's existing provider of telecommunications services to a new provider of telecommunications services;
(5) The utilities and transportation commission pursuant to its jurisdiction and control over telecommunications companies;
(6) A sales agent to provide the subscriber's wireless phone numbers to the radio communications service company for the limited purpose of billing and customer service;
(7) A directory provider that has undertaken a reasonable investigation pursuant to RCW 19.250.020 and is unable to determine whether the phone number is a wireless phone number;
(8) A directory provider that publishes a subscriber's wireless phone number in a directory that is obtained directly from a radio communications service company and that radio communications service company has obtained the required express, opt-in consent for including in any directory the subscriber's wireless phone number as specified in RCW 19.250.010;
(9) A person that publishes a subscriber's wireless phone number in a directory where the subscriber pays a fee to have the number published for commercial purposes;
(10) A person that publishes a subscriber's wireless phone number that was ported from listed wireline service to wireless service within the previous fifteen months; and
(11) A consumer reporting agency as defined in RCW 19.182.010 for use as a unique identifier of a consumer in a consumer report as defined in RCW 19.182.010.
[2008 c 271 § 9.]
Notes:
Findings -- 2008 c 271: See note following RCW 19.250.005.
Sections: Previous 19.250.005 19.250.010 19.250.020 19.250.030 19.250.040 19.250.050 19.250.060 19.250.070
Last modified: April 7, 2009