"Telephone sales call"

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. (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.