Sec. 9. (a) “Telephone sales call” means a telephone call made to a consumer for any of the following purposes:

(1) Solicitation of a sale of consumer goods or services.

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(2) Solicitation of a charitable contribution.

(3) Obtaining information that will or may be used for the direct solicitation of a sale of consumer goods or services or an extension of credit for such purposes.

     (b) The term includes any of the following:

(1) A call made by use of an automated dialing device.

(2) A call made by use of a recorded message device.

(3) Transmission of:

(A) a text message;

(B) a graphic message;

(C) an image;

(D) a photograph; or

(E) a multimedia message;

to a telephone number through the use of short message service (SMS), multimedia messaging service (MMS), over-the-top (OTT) messaging or voice calling service, or any other technology or service that transmits messages to a device.

As added by P.L.189-2001, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.226-2011, SEC.11; P.L.148-2024, SEC.13.