§ 40-12-401 — Definitions

Wyoming § 40-12-401

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 40: Trade and Commerce
• Ch. 12: CONSUMER PROTECTION
• Art. 4: COMMERCIAL ELECTRONIC MAIL

Text

(a) As used in this article:
(i) "Assist the transmission" means actions taken by
a person to provide substantial assistance or support which
enables any person to formulate, compose, send, originate,
initiate or transmit a commercial electronic mail message when
the person providing the assistance knows or consciously avoids
knowing that the initiator of the commercial electronic mail
message is engaged or intends to engage in any practice that
violates this article;
(ii) "Commercial electronic mail message" means an
electronic mail message sent for the purpose of promoting real
property, goods or services for sale or lease. It does not mean
an electronic mail message to which an interactive computer
service provider has attached an advertisement in exchange for
free use of an electronic mail account, when the sender has
agreed to such an arrangement;
(iii) "Electronic mail address" means a destination,
commonly expressed as a string of characters, to which
electronic mail may be sent or delivered;
(iv) "Enforcing authority" means the Wyoming attorney
general;
(v) "Initiate the transmission" refers to the action
by the original sender of an electronic mail message, not to the
action by any intervening interactive computer service that may
handle or retransmit the message, unless such intervening
interactive computer service assists in the transmission of an
electronic mail message when it knows or consciously avoids
knowing that the person initiating the transmission is engaged
or intends to engage in any act or practice that violates this
article;
(vi) "Interactive computer service" means any
information service, system or access software provider that
provides or enables computer access by multiple users to a
computer server, including specifically a service or system that
provides access to the internet and such systems operated or
services offered by libraries or educational institutions;
(vii) "Internet domain name" refers to a globally
unique, hierarchical reference to an internet host or service,
assigned through centralized internet naming authorities,
comprising a series of character strings separated by periods,
with the right-most string specifying the top of the hierarchy;
(viii) "Service provider" means an entity offering
the transmission, routing or providing of connections for
digital online communications between or among points specified
by a user, of material of the user's choosing, without
modification to the content of the material sent or received.