2006 Minnesota Statutes

325E.26 DEFINITIONS.
    Subdivision 1. Scope. The terms used in sections 325E.26 to 325E.30 have the meanings
given them in this section.
    Subd. 2. Automatic dialing-announcing device. "Automatic dialing-announcing device"
means a device that selects and dials telephone numbers and that, working alone or in conjunction
with other equipment, disseminates a prerecorded or synthesized voice message to the telephone
number called.
    Subd. 3. Caller. "Caller" means a person, corporation, firm, partnership, association, or legal
or commercial entity who attempts to contact, or who contacts, a subscriber in this state by
using a telephone or a telephone line.
    Subd. 4. Commercial telephone solicitation. "Commercial telephone solicitation" means
any unsolicited call to a residential subscriber when the person initiating the call has not had a
prior business or personal relationship with the subscriber, and when the purpose of the call is
to solicit the purchase or the consideration of purchase of goods or services by the subscriber.
Commercial telephone solicitation does not include calls initiated by organizations listed in
Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 290.21, subdivision 3, clauses (a) to (e).
    Subd. 5. Subscriber. "Subscriber" means a person who has subscribed to telephone service
from a telephone company or the other persons living or residing with the subscribing person.
    Subd. 6. Message. "Message" means any call, regardless of its content.
History: 1987 c 294 s 1; 1994 c 534 art 2 s 1; 2003 c 2 art 1 s 38