Tex. Utilities Code § 55.128
This is the official text of Tex. Utilities Code § 55.128, part of Texas’s Utilities Code — regulates utility companies.
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§ 55.128. DURATION OF RECORDED MESSAGE.
Official statutory text
A person may not use an automated dial announcing device to make for solicitation purposes a telephone call in which the device plays a recorded message when the connection is completed unless:
(1) the recorded message is shorter than 30 seconds; or
(2) the device has the technical capacity to:
(A) recognize a telephone answering device on the called person's line; and
(B) terminate the call within 30 seconds.
(1) the recorded message is shorter than 30 seconds; or
(2) the device has the technical capacity to:
(A) recognize a telephone answering device on the called person's line; and
(B) terminate the call within 30 seconds.
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