California Public Utilities Code

§ 2889

PUC § 2889Div. 1 · Part 2 · Ch. 10 · Art. 2

Statute text

(a)An information provider engaged in furnishing any live, recorded, or recorded-interactive audio text through information access telephone service shall provide a (1) delayed timing of information charges and (2) price disclosure message.

(b)The telephone corporation shall provide information providers, described in subdivision (a), with a period of a minimum of 12 seconds for a delayed timing of information charges and price disclosure message. If the delayed timing period is exceeded, a consumer shall be billed from the time of the initial connection, and transport charges shall be billed to the information provider from the time of the initial connection. If the consumer disconnects the call within the delayed timing period, no information charge shall be billed to the caller.

(c)(1) During the delayed timing period, the information provider shall inform the consumer of all of the following:

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 1990, Ch. 1317, Sec. 2. Operative July 1, 1991, by Sec. 3 of Ch. 1317.