Vermont Statutes Title 9 Sec. 2513
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Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 9 Sec. 2513
- Caller: means a person who accesses a pay-per-call service. See
- 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. 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
§ 2513. Automatic billing arrangements
It shall be an unlawful practice for a sponsor to initiate or make available pay-per-call services that impose a pay-per-call charge on persons as a result of a call placed to them, or that impose a pay-per-call charge on persons who have made a call to regular or noncharged telephone lines, unless the caller initiates a separate call to the pay-per-call service using a telephone number expressly identified by the sponsor as a pay-per-call number. (Added 1993, No. 99, § 2.)