§ 2501 — Definitions

As used in this chapter:
(1) “Caller” means a person who accesses a pay-per-call service.
(2) “Interactive program” means a pay-per-call program that allows callers to choose between options or to communicate with other callers.
(3) “Pay-per-call service” means any passive, interactive, polling, conference, or other similar audiotext service that is accessed through a telephone number and that generates an audiotext service related fee billed to a subscriber. “Pay-per-call service” does not include any conference service the price of which is established pursuant to a tariff approved by a regulatory agency.
(4) “Advertisements and promotions” include all forms of solicitation directed at prospective callers of pay-per-call services, including mailings and advertisements in newspapers and magazines and on radio and television.
(5) “Sponsor” means an individual, corporation, association, partnership, or other entity that sells or offers to sell a pay-per-call service to a person in this State and on whose behalf charges are billed, but shall not include a public utility regulated by the State or the Federal Communications Commission or an interexchange carrier which provides transport or billing and collection services for a pay-per-call service unless the public utility or interexchange carrier actually produces or advertises the pay-per-call service.

Legislative History

(Added 1993, No. 99, § 2; amended 2021, No. 20, § 23.)