The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
(Cite as: 9 V.S.A. § 2501)
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§ 2501. Definitions
As used in this chapter:
(1) “Caller” means a person who accesses a pay-per-call service.
(2) “Interactive program” means a pay-per-call program that allows callers to choose between
options or to communicate with other callers.
(3) “Pay-per-call service” means any passive, interactive, polling, conference, or other
similar audiotext service that is accessed through a telephone number and that generates
an audiotext service related fee billed to a subscriber. “Pay-per-call service” does
not include any conference service the price of which is established pursuant to a
tariff approved by a regulatory agency.
(4) “Advertisements and promotions” include all forms of solicitation directed at prospective
callers of pay-per-call services, including mailings and advertisements in newspapers
and magazines and on radio and television.
(5) “Sponsor” means an individual, corporation, association, partnership, or other entity
that sells or offers to sell a pay-per-call service to a person in this State and
on whose behalf charges are billed, but shall not include a public utility regulated
by the State or the Federal Communications Commission or an interexchange carrier
which provides transport or billing and collection services for a pay-per-call service
unless the public utility or interexchange carrier actually produces or advertises
the pay-per-call service. (Added 1993, No. 99, § 2; amended 2021, No. 20, § 23.)