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<div class="quote-block"><i>Originally posted by Marie</i><br><br><b>Recorded telemarketers are illegal? Really?</b></div>
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From the Telephone Consumer Protection Act:<br><br><div class="quote-container"><span>Quote:</span>
<div class="quote-block">From Subpart L - Restrictions on Telephone Solicitation<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>
No person may<br><br><br><br>
Initiate any telephone call (other than a call made for emergency purposes or made with the prior express consent of the called party) using an automatic telephone dialing system or an artificial or prerecorded voice,<br><br><br><br>
To any emergency telephone line, including any 911 line and any emergency line of a hospital, medical physician or service office, health care facility, poison control center, or fire protection or law enforcement agency;<br><br>
To the telephone line of any guest room or patient room of a hospital, health care facility, elderly home, or similar establishment; or<br><br>
To any telephone number assigned to a paging service, cellular telephone service, specialized mobile radio service, or other radio common carrier service, or any service for which the called party is charged for the call;<br><br><i><b>Initiate any telephone call to any residential telephone line using an artificial or prerecorded voice to deliver a message without the prior express consent of the called party, unless the call is initiated for emergency purposes or is exempted by sec. 64.1200(c).</b></i><br><br>
Use a telephone facsimile machine, computer, or other device to send an unsolicited advertisement to a telephone facsimile machine.<br><br>
Use an automatic telephone dialing system in such a way that two or more telephone lines of a multi-line business are engaged simultaneously.</div>
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