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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:1734

  • Sponsor: means an individual, corporation, association, partnership, or other entity that sells a pay-per-call service 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, or both, and collection services for a pay-per-call service, unless the public utility or interexchange carrier actually produces or promotes the pay-per-call service. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:1730

A.  Any sponsor that violates any provision of this Chapter shall be assessed a civil penalty of five thousand dollars for the first violation and ten thousand dollars for a second or subsequent violation.  

B.  Any violation of this Chapter by a sponsor shall constitute an unfair practice under La. Rev. Stat. 51:1405(A).  

Acts 1991, No. 808, §1; Acts 1992, No. 176, §1.