Source: http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/bills_129th/billtexts/SP008902.asp
Timestamp: 2019-06-20 08:10:07
Document Index: 280555922

Matched Legal Cases: ['§1498', '§1', '§1498', '§2', '§1498', '§6', '§1499', '§1', '§1', '§2', '§1499', '§2', '§1', '§2', '§1499', '§3', '§1', '§2', '§1499', '§4']

SP0089, LD 277, item 2, Document Text
C "A", Filing Number S-88, Sponsored by
‘Sec. 1. 10 MRSA §1498, sub-§1, ¶A-1 is enacted to read:
A-1. "Misleading or inaccurate caller identification information" includes, to the extent consistent with federal law, blocked caller identification information.
Sec. 2. 10 MRSA §1498, sub-§2, as enacted by PL 1989, c. 775, is amended to read:
Sec. 3. 10 MRSA §1498, sub-§6, as enacted by PL 1989, c. 775, is amended to read:
D. Deliver an emergency message by a governmental entity;
E. Deliver information with the prior, written, express consent of the recipient of the call; or
F. Communicate with a business about reservations, purchases and other information for customers such as hours of operation, directions and merchandise availability.
Sec. 4. 10 MRSA §1499-A, sub-§1, ¶D, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 70, §1 and affected by §2, is amended to read:
D. "Telemarketing" means a plan, program or campaign that is conducted by use of one or more telephones or other telecommunications services, including interconnected voice over Internet protocol and text messaging, to induce the purchase of goods or services or a charitable contribution and that involves more than one intrastate telephone call. "Telemarketing" does not include the solicitation of sales through the mailing of a catalog that contains a written description or illustration of the goods or services offered for sale, the business address of the seller and multiple pages of written material or illustrations, and that is issued not less frequently than once a year, if the person making the solicitation does not solicit customers by telephone but only receives calls initiated by customers in response to the catalog and during those calls takes orders without further solicitation. For purposes of this paragraph, the term "further solicitation" does not include providing the customer with information about, or attempting to sell, any other item included in the same catalog that prompted the customer's call or in a substantially similar catalog.
Sec. 5. 10 MRSA §1499-A, sub-§2, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 70, §1 and affected by §2, is repealed and the following enacted in its place:
2. Prohibition. It is an unfair trade practice, as prohibited by Title 5, section 207 and enforced by the Office of the Attorney General, for a seller or telemarketer to cause any caller identification services to transmit misleading or inaccurate caller identification information with the intent to defraud or cause harm to another person or to wrongfully obtain anything of value.
Sec. 6. 10 MRSA §1499-A, sub-§3, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 70, §1 and affected by §2, is repealed.
Sec. 7. 10 MRSA §1499-A, sub-§4 is enacted to read:
4. Exception. It is not a violation of subsection 2 for:
A. A seller or telemarketer to substitute for the name and telephone number used in or billed for making the call:
(1) The name of the seller or charitable organization on whose behalf the telemarketing call is placed; or
(2) The seller's or charitable organization's customer or donor service telephone number that is answered during regular business hours; or
B. A telecommunications carrier, as defined in 47 United States Code, Section 153(51), to provide telecommunications service, as defined in 47 United States Code, Section 153(53).’