Text: HF02147 Text: HF02149 Text: HF02100 - HF02199 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
PAG LIN 1 1 HOUSE FILE 2148 1 2 1 3 AN ACT 1 4 PROHIBITING THE USE OF A TELEPHONE LISTING THAT 1 5 MISREPRESENTS THE NAME AND LOCATION OF A BUSINESS 1 6 AND MAKING PENALTIES APPLICABLE. 1 7 1 8 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 1 9 1 10 Section 1. Section 714.16, subsection 2, Code 1999, is 1 11 amended by adding the following new paragraph: 1 12 NEW PARAGRAPH. n. (1) It is an unlawful practice for a 1 13 person to misrepresent the geographic location of a supplier 1 14 or a service or product by listing a fictitious business name 1 15 or an assumed business name in a local telephone directory or 1 16 directory assistance database if all of the following apply: 1 17 (a) The name purportedly represents the geographic 1 18 location of the supplier. 1 19 (b) The listing does not identify the address, including 1 20 the city and state, of the supplier. 1 21 (c) Calls made to a local telephone number are routinely 1 22 forwarded to or otherwise transferred to a business location 1 23 that is outside the local calling area covered by the local 1 24 telephone directory or directory assistance database. 1 25 (2) A telephone company, provider of directory assistance, 1 26 publisher of a local telephone directory, or officer, 1 27 employee, or agent of such company, provider, or publisher 1 28 shall not be liable in a civil action under this section for 1 29 publishing in any directory or directory assistance database 1 30 the listing of a fictitious or assumed business name of a 1 31 person in violation of subparagraph (1) unless the telephone 1 32 company, directory assistance provider, directory publisher, 1 33 or officer, employee, or agent of the company, provider, or 1 34 publisher is the person committing such violation. 1 35 (3) For purposes of this paragraph: 2 1 (a) "Local telephone directory" means a telephone 2 2 classified advertising directory or the business section of a 2 3 telephone directory that is distributed free of charge to some 2 4 or all telephone subscribers in a local area directory. 2 5 (b) "Local telephone number" means a telephone number that 2 6 has a three-number prefix used by the provider of telephone 2 7 service for telephone customers physically located within the 2 8 area covered by the local telephone directory in which the 2 9 number is listed. The term does not include long distance 2 10 numbers or 800, 888, or 900 exchange numbers listed in the 2 11 telephone directory. 2 12 2 13 2 14 2 15 BRENT SIEGRIST 2 16 Speaker of the House 2 17 2 18 2 19 2 20 MARY E. KRAMER 2 21 President of the Senate 2 22 2 23 I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and 2 24 is known as House File 2148, Seventy-eighth General Assembly. 2 25 2 26 2 27 2 28 ELIZABETH ISAACSON 2 29 Chief Clerk of the House 2 30 Approved , 2000 2 31 2 32 2 33 2 34 THOMAS J. VILSACK 2 35 Governor
Text: HF02147 Text: HF02149 Text: HF02100 - HF02199 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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