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Places automated calls, in Oklahoma

Commercial telephone seller registration and unlawful telemarketing practicessince 4 lines

Okla. Stat. tit. 15, §§ 775A.1 to 775A.5 · Read the law's page

  • Before making a commercial telephone solicitation call or message to a person in Oklahoma, register as a commercial telephone seller with the Attorney General at least ten days beforehand and file a $10,000.00 surety bond, unless an exemption in Section 775A.2 applies to you.
  • Do not use equipment or techniques designed to block or avoid detection of your identity or telephone number by caller identification devices, and do not use automatic dialing equipment that results in more than five percent abandoned calls a day in a calling campaign.
  • Allow a purchaser in a telephone sales transaction to cancel the purchase within three business days of receiving the goods, services, or property, disclose that cancellation right to the purchaser during the call, and refund all payments within thirty days of a valid cancellation.
  • This registration and unlawful-practices duty does not reach a call to a business purchaser who has previously bought identical or similar goods or services from you, or the other exempted categories of caller and transaction Section 775A.2 lists.
Telemarketer Restriction Act, no-call registrysince 2 lines

Okla. Stat. tit. 15, §§ 775B.1 to 775B.7 · Read the law's page

  • Do not make or cause to be made an unsolicited telemarketing sales call or message, including a cellular telephone text message, to a consumer more than thirty days after that consumer's telephone number first appears on the Attorney General's no-telemarketing-sales-call registry, unless you have an established business relationship with the consumer or the number has since been removed from the registry.
  • This no-call duty does not reach a call soliciting funds or other support for a charitable or religious activity, a political candidate, cause, or organization, or a not-for-profit organized under Internal Revenue Code section 501(c)(3), and an established business relationship excusing a call is one formed within the preceding twenty-four months, or an ongoing relationship neither party has ended.
Anti-Caller ID Spoofing Actsince 1 line

Okla. Stat. tit. 15, §§ 776.20 to 776.23 · Read the law's page

  • Do not knowingly insert false caller identification information into a caller identification system with the intent to mislead, defraud, or deceive the recipient of a telephone call; inserting the true name or number of the person on whose behalf an authorized call is placed is not false information.
Telephone Solicitation Act of 2022since 5 lines

Okla. Stat. tit. 15, §§ 775C.1 to 775C.6 · Read the law's page

  • Obtain the called party's prior express written consent before making, or knowingly allowing, a commercial telephonic sales call, text message or voicemail that uses an automated system for the selection or dialing of telephone numbers or plays a recorded message when the call connects; the consent must be a signed written agreement (an electronic signature counts where federal law or state contract law recognizes it) that names the telephone number to be called and discloses clearly and conspicuously that the called party need not sign it to buy anything.
  • Transmit your originating telephone number, and your name when your carrier makes it available, to the recipient's caller identification service; you may substitute the seller's name and its customer service number, answered during regular business hours, and any number you display must be able to receive calls and connect the caller to you or to the seller.
  • Do not alter a caller's voice to disguise the caller's identity in order to defraud, confuse or injure the recipient, or to obtain personal information for fraudulent or unlawful use.
  • As a commercial telephone seller or salesperson, do not make a commercial telephone solicitation call before 8 a.m. or after 8 p.m. in the called person's time zone, or more than three such calls to one person in 24 hours on the same subject matter from any number, and do not block your name or number or display a different caller identification number to conceal your identity.
  • These duties do not apply to a call to a consumer who has an existing business relationship with, or has previously purchased from, the business you call for, to a solicitation for religious, charitable, political or educational purposes, to an isolated transaction, or to the other exempt callers and calls section 775C.5 lists.

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