Vermont Statutes Title 9 Sec. 2503
Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 9 Sec. 2503
- Caller: means a person who accesses a pay-per-call service. See
- following: when used by way of reference to a section of the law shall mean the next preceding or following section. See
- 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. See
§ 2503. Requirements for preambles
A sponsor of pay-per-call services for which the charge to the caller may in any case exceed $2.00 shall commence the service with a disclosure message or “preamble” provided at no charge to the caller, clearly indicating the following information:
(1) an accurate description of the service;
(2) the total price of the service, including:
(A) all per-call charges; and
(B) if the call is billed on a usage-sensitive basis, all rates by minute or other unit of time, any minimum charges and the total cost for calls to that program if the duration of the program can be determined;
(3) that billing will commence only after a specific identified event following the disclosure message, such as a signal tone, followed by a reasonable period of time within which the caller may disconnect before that event;
(4) if the service is directed at or likely to be of interest to children under age 18, a statement that the caller should hang up if parental consent has not been obtained; and
(5) the legal name of the sponsor of the service. (Added 1993, No. 99, § 2.)