Prohibition of unsolicited or misleading commercial

Act 222 of 2002, § 3, under UNSOLICITED TELECOMMUNICATION ADVERTISEMENT ACT.

Act 222 of 2002, § 3

Section 3. Prohibition of unsolicited or misleading commercial

electronic mail messages and faxes.

(a) General rule.--No person may initiate a transmission or conspire with another person to initiate a transmission or assist a transmission of an unsolicited commercial electronic mail message or fax from a computer or fax machine located in this Commonwealth or to an electronic mail address that:

(1) uses a third party's Internet domain name in the

return electronic mail message without permission of the

third party;

(2) includes false or misleading information in the

return address portion of the electronic mail, facsimile or

wireless advertisement such that the recipient would be

unable to send a reply message to the original authentic

sender;

(3) contains false or misleading information in the

subject line; or

(4) fails to operate a valid sender-operated return e-

mail address or toll-free telephone number that the recipient

of the unsolicited documents may e-mail or call to notify the

sender not to transmit further unsolicited documents.

(b) Covered mobile telephone messaging systems.--No person may use a covered mobile telephone messaging system to transmit an unsolicited commercial electronic mail message.