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  "urn": "urn:us-la:rs:51:1730",
  "title_number": "51",
  "section_number": "1730",
  "citation": "R.S. 51:1730",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "As used in this Chapter, the following terms and phrases shall have the meanings hereinafter ascribed to them:\n\n(1) \"Advertisement\" means any promotion of 900, 976, or any other pay-per-call service by means of any radio, television, video or print media, telemarketing, or any other communication promoting a 900 or 976 number, service, or program to consumers.\n\n(2) \"Carrier\" means any company that provides telecommunications transmission services.\n\n(3) \"Consumer\" means a telephone user or end-user who calls or may call a 900, 976, or any other pay-per-call service.\n\n(4) \"Department\" means the Department of Justice.\n\n(5) \"Pay-per-call service\" means any passive, interactive, polling, or other similar audiotext service that is accessed through a seven or ten digit telephone number that is provided for a charge to a caller through an exclusive telephone number prefix or service access code.\n\n(6) \"Sponsor\" means an individual, corporation, association, partnership, or other entity that sells a pay-per-call service 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, or both, and collection services for a pay-per-call service, unless the public utility or interexchange carrier actually produces or promotes the pay-per-call service.\n\n(7) \"Subscriber\" means any person or entity in whose name a telephone account is billed.",
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      "level": "title",
      "number": "51",
      "name": "TRADE AND COMMERCE"
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    {
      "level": "chapter",
      "number": "19-B",
      "name": "DISCLOSURE OF CHARGES FOR 900, 976, AND OTHER PAY-PER-CALL SERVICES"
    }
  ],
  "breadcrumb": "Title 51 › Chapter 19-B",
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      "act_year": 1991,
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  "acts_citations_raw": "Acts 1991, No. 808, §1; Acts 1992, No. 176, §1.",
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