Abusive Telemarketing Acts or Practices

1. Law
2. Georgia Code
3. Public Utilities and Public Transportation
4. Telephone Service
5. Telecommunications Marketing Act of 1998
6. Abusive Telemarketing Acts or Practices

Telecommunications companies may not engage in any abusive telemarketing act or practice. Each instance of engaging in an abusive act or practice shall constitute a separate violation of this article. Abusive telemarketing acts or practices shall include but not be limited to the following conduct:

1. Threats, intimidation, or the use of profane or obscene language;
2. Causing any telephone to ring, or engaging any person in telephone conversation, repeatedly or continuously with intent to annoy, abuse, or harass any person called at that number; and
3. Engaging in outbound telephone calls to a person's residence at any time other than between 8:00 A.M. and 9:00 P.M. local time at the called person's residence unless such person has consented prior to the initiation of the call.

(Code 1981, §46-5-187, enacted by Ga. L. 1998, p. 919, § 1.)

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