{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-46-5-171.1","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 46-5-171.1","heading":"Written authorization required by customer prior to being charged for service initiated by a third party.","body":"(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this Code section, no telecommunications company shall charge a customer for any service which is provided to the customer by a nonaffiliated third party until such third party has certified to the telecommunications company that the third party has received the customer’s written authorization for such charges. When a customer initiates a new type of such third-party service or changes the type or types of such third-party service received, the invoice for such new or changed services must state the charges for such services in a clear, conspicuous, separate, and distinct manner so as to ensure that the customer is aware of the new or changed charges. Any telecommunications company that charges a customer for a service which is provided to the customer by a nonaffiliated third party must provide to such customer the ability to block the nonaffiliated third-party service and any charges associated with such service.\n(b) This Code section shall not apply to any transaction between a customer and that customer’s selected provider of basic local exchange, inter-LATA, or intra-LATA telecommunications services or initial requests to subscribe to such services; wireless services; requests for a change in a customer’s provider of local exchange service or a change in a customer’s primary interexchange inter-LATA or intra-LATA carrier; or customer initiated use of abbreviated dialing codes or other pay-per-use services.","path":["TITLE 46 Public Utilities and Public Transportation","CHAPTER 5 Telephone Service","Article 4 Telecommunications and Competition Development"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.46.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T19:34:57Z","sha256":"f37ccf55090fcfc82cc6f2efc92a7356aa145ef7b7908051b94938765ba74370","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-46-5-171","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-46-5-172"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}