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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>59122</law_id><section_number>59.1-518.1</section_number><catch_line>Definitions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>24.2-959</reference><reference>24.2-959.1</reference><reference>59.1-200</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="59.1">Trade and Commerce</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="44.1">Automatic Dialing-Announcing Devices</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>As used in this chapter:
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Automatic dialing-announcing device</span>&#x201D; means a device that (i) selects and dials telephone numbers and (ii) working alone or in conjunction with other equipment, disseminates a prerecorded or synthesized voice message to the telephone number called.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Caller</span>&#x201D; means a person that attempts to contact, or contacts, a <span class="dictionary">subscriber</span> in the Commonwealth by using a telephone or telephone line.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Commercial telephone solicitation</span>&#x201D; means any unsolicited call to a <span class="dictionary">subscriber</span> when (i) the person initiating the call has not had a prior business or personal relationship with the <span class="dictionary">subscriber</span> and (ii) the purpose of the call is to solicit the purchase or the consideration of the purchase of goods or services by the <span class="dictionary">subscriber</span>. The term does not include calls initiated by the Commonwealth or a political subdivision for exclusively public purposes.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Subscriber</span>&#x201D; means (i) a person who has subscribed to telephone service from a telephone company or (ii) other persons living or residing with the person.</p></section></text><history>2009, c. 699.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
