TITLE 11
Criminal Offenses
CHAPTER 11-35
Public Utilities
SECTION 11-35-26
§ 11-35-26 Automatic telephone dialing
systems failing to disconnect.
(a) Any person who operates an automatic telephone dialing system in this state
which fails within five (5) seconds after the called party hangs up to
automatically create a disconnect signal or an on-hook condition which allows
the called party's line to be released shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and
shall be punished by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars ($200) for
each occurrence.
(b) As used in this section, "automatic telephone dialing
system" means any automatic terminal equipment which is capable of storing
numbers to be called or producing numbers to be called, using a random or
sequential number generator, and with the ability to call those numbers, and
which is capable of delivering a prerecorded message to the number called with
or without manual assistance.
History of Section.
(P.L. 1987, ch. 59, § 1.)
