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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?091+ful+CHAP0699\">699<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":262449,"object_type":"law","relational_id":77790,"identifier":"59.1-518.3","token":"59.1\/44.1\/59.1-518.3","url":"\/59.1-518.3\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/59.1-518.3\/","token":"59.1\/44.1\/59.1-518.3","dublin_core":{"Title":"Disconnect requirement","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 59.1-518.3","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>A <span class=\"dictionary\">caller<\/span> shall not use an <span class=\"dictionary\">automatic dialing-announcing device<\/span> or other device that disseminates a prerecorded or synthesized voice message to the telephone number called unless the device is designed and operated to disconnect, disengage, or terminate within five seconds after the <span class=\"dictionary\">party<\/span> called terminates the telephone call by any method that is in accordance with normal operating procedures of his telephone receiver.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nDISCONNECT REQUIREMENT (\u00a7 59.1-518.3)\n\nA caller shall not use an automatic dialing-announcing device or other device\nthat disseminates a prerecorded or synthesized voice message to the telephone\nnumber called unless the device is designed and operated to disconnect,\ndisengage, or terminate within five seconds after the party called terminates\nthe telephone call by any method that is in accordance with normal operating\nprocedures of his telephone receiver.\n\nHISTORY: 2009, c. 699.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}