RS 51:1730 - Definitions As used in this Chapter, the following terms and phrases shall have the meanings hereinafter ascribed to them: (1) 'Advertisement' means any promotion of 900, 976, or any other pay-per-call service by means of any radio, television, video or print media, telemarketing, or any other communication promoting a 900 or 976 number, service, or program to consumers. (2) 'Carrier' means any company that provides telecommunications transmission services. (3) 'Consumer' means a telephone user or end-user who calls or may call a 900, 976, or any other pay-per-call service. (4) 'Department' means the Department of Justice. (5) 'Pay-per-call service' means any passive, interactive, polling, or other similar audiotext service that is accessed through a seven or ten digit telephone number that is provided for a charge to a caller through an exclusive telephone number prefix or service access code. (6) 'Sponsor' means an individual, corporation, association, partnership, or other entity that sells a pay-per-call service on whose behalf charges are billed, but shall not include a public utility regulated by the state or the Federal Communications Commission or an hip, or other entity that sells a pay-per-call service 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, or both, and collection services for a pay-per-call service, unless the public utility or interexchange carrier actually produces or promotes the pay-per-call service. (7) 'Subscriber' means any person or entity in whose name a telephone account is billed. Acts 1991, No. 808, §1; Acts 1992, No. 176, §1.
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