(a) The commission may promulgate reasonable regulations concerning the offering of pay-per-call services to customers within the state. The regulations may include advertising standards, conditions under which charges for 'pay-per-call services' may be adjusted or waived along with other restrictions or requirements that the commission determines are necessary to protect consumers’ reasonable access to 'pay-per-call services.' (b) For the purposes of this section, 'pay-per-call service' means any passive, interactive, polling, conference, or other similar audiotext service that is accessed by telephone, through a 900 area or exchange code or otherwise, and generates a service-related fee billed to a telephone customer via a telephone common carrier or local exchange telephone company in the customer’s normal monthly bill for telephone service. History of Section.P.L. 1992, ch. 389, § 1.
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