Bill Text: CA AB2808 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Primary ticket sellers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-05-16 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB2808 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB2808-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 2808

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Introduced by Assembly Member Wicks

February 15, 2024

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An act to amend Section 22600 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to business.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2808, as introduced, Wicks. Commercial directories: fines.

Existing law requires a publisher to obtain the written consent of a subscriber who has been assigned a telephone number for a facsimile machine before including the number in any commercial directory, as specified. Existing law makes a violation of this provision an infraction punishable by a fine of $500.

This bill would increase that fine to $525. The bill would also make a nonsubstantive change to those provisions.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 22600 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:

22600.

 (a) Every publisher shall, prior to including a telephone number for a facsimile machine in any commercial directory of telephone numbers, obtain the written consent of the subscriber who has been assigned the number unless the telephone number for the facsimile machine is obtained from a telephone corporation’s alphabetical or classified directory of telephone numbers.

(b) As used in this section:

(1) “Commercial directory” does not include an alphabetical directory of telephone numbers or a classified directory published by a telephone corporation.

(2) “Telephone number for a facsimile machine” means any number designated in a directory as being for a facsimile machine or any number included in a directory represented to be a directory of telephone numbers for facsimile machines.

(c) Every publisher shall notify, in writing, all of the subscribers of the facsimile telephone numbers printed in the publisher’s directory of the requirements of this chapter on or before April 1, 1991. Unless the subscriber thereafter notifies the publisher otherwise, telephone numbers for facsimile machines published prior to July 1, 1991, without the written consent of the subscriber, may continue to be published by that publisher. Upon notification by the subscriber that he or she desires they desire to be excluded from the directory, all subsequent volumes of the directory shall exclude the subscriber’s facsimile telephone number.

(d) Every violation of subdivision (a) is an infraction punishable by a fine of five hundred twenty-five dollars ($500). ($525).