{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-46-5-187","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 46-5-187","heading":"Abusive telemarketing acts or practices.","body":"Telecommunications companies may not engage in any abusive telemarketing act or practice. Each instance of engaging in an abusive act or practice shall constitute a separate violation of this article. Abusive telemarketing acts or practices shall include but not be limited to the following conduct:\n(1) Threats, intimidation, or the use of profane or obscene language;\n(2) Causing any telephone to ring, or engaging any person in telephone conversation, repeatedly or continuously with intent to annoy, abuse, or harass any person called at that number; and\n(3) Engaging in outbound telephone calls to a person’s residence at any time other than between 8:00 A.M. and 9:00 P.M. local time at the called person’s residence unless such person has consented prior to the initiation of the call.","path":["TITLE 46 Public Utilities and Public Transportation","CHAPTER 5 Telephone Service","Article 5 Telecommunications Marketing Act of 1998"],"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":"c830241045f08cec097445dbb694c16201f8e081b9c62017fa7f5523955deca4","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-46-5-186","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-46-5-188"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}