13-25a-103 - Prohibited conduct for telephone solicitations -- Exceptions. - Utah Statutes

13-25a-103. Prohibited conduct for telephone solicitations -- Exceptions.
(1) Except as provided in Subsection (2), a person may not operate or authorize theoperation of an automated telephone dialing system to make a telephone solicitation.
(2) A person may operate an automated telephone dialing system if a call is made:
(a) with the prior express consent of the person who is called agreeing to receive atelephone solicitation from a specific solicitor; or
(b) to a person with whom the solicitor has an established business relationship.
(3) A person may not make a telephone solicitation to a residential telephone withoutprior express consent during any of the following times:
(a) before 8 a.m. or after 9 p.m. local time;
(b) on a Sunday; or
(c) on a legal holiday.
(4) A person may not make or authorize a telephone solicitation in violation of Title 47U.S.C. 227.
(5) Any telephone solicitor who makes an unsolicited telephone call to a telephonenumber shall:
(a) identify the telephone solicitor;
(b) identify the business on whose behalf the telephone solicitor is soliciting;
(c) identify the purpose of the call promptly upon making contact by telephone with theperson who is the object of the telephone solicitation;
(d) discontinue the solicitation if the person being solicited gives a negative response atany time during the telephone call; and
(e) hang up the phone, or in the case of an automated telephone dialing system operator,disconnect the automated telephone dialing system from the telephone line within 25 seconds ofthe termination of the call by the person being called.
(6) A telephone solicitor may not withhold the display of the telephone solicitor'stelephone number from a caller identification service when that number is being used fortelemarketing purposes and when the telephone solicitor's service or equipment is capable ofallowing the display of the number.

Amended by Chapter 90, 2004 General Session
Amended by Chapter 263, 2004 General Session