Georgia § 46-5-187 - Abusive telemarketing acts or practices.
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§ 46-5-187. Abusive telemarketing acts or practices.
Telecommunications companies may not engage in any abusive telemarketing act or practice. Each instance of engaging in an abusive act or practice shall constitute a separate violation of this article. Abusive telemarketing acts or practices shall include but not be limited to the following conduct: Threats, intimidation, or the use of profane or obscene language; Causing any telephone to ring, or engaging any person in telephone conversation, repeatedly or continuously with intent to annoy, abuse, or harass any person called at that number; and Engaging in outbound telephone calls to a person's residence at any time other than between 8:00 A.M. and 9:00 P.M. local time at the called person's residence unless such person has consented prior to the initiation of the call. (Code 1981, § 46-5-187 , enacted by Ga. L. 1998, p. 919, § 1.)
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