Section 2893 Of Article 3. Customer Right Of Privacy From California Public Utilities Code >> Division 1. >> Part 2. >> Chapter 10. >> Article 3.
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. (a) The commission shall, by rule or order, require that
every telephone call identification service offered in this state by
a telephone corporation, or by any other person or corporation that
makes use of the facilities of a telephone corporation, shall allow a
caller to withhold display of the caller's telephone number, on an
individual basis, from the telephone instrument of the individual
receiving the telephone call placed by the caller. However a caller
shall not be allowed to withhold the display of the caller's business
telephone number when that number is being used for telemarketing
purposes.
(b) There shall be no charge to the caller who requests that his
or her telephone number be withheld from the recipient of any call
placed by the caller.
(c) The commission shall direct every telephone corporation to
notify its subscribers that their calls may be identified to a called
party either:
(1) Thirty or more days before the telephone corporation commences
to participate in the offering of a call identification service.
(2) By March 1, 1990, if the telephone corporation is
participating in a call identification service prior to January 1,
1990.
(d) This section does not apply to any of the following:
(1) An identification service which is used within the same
limited system, including, but not limited to, a Centrex or private
branch exchange (PBX) system, as the recipient telephone.
(2) An identification service which is used on a public agency's
emergency telephone line or on the line which receives the primary
emergency telephone number (911).
(3) Any identification service provided in connection with legally
sanctioned call tracing or tapping procedures.
(4) Any identification service provided in connection with any
"800" or "900" access code telephone service until the telephone
corporation develops the technical capability to comply with
subdivision (a), as determined by the commission.
(e) Until the market for local telephone service is competitive, a
telephone corporation shall not charge any subscriber for having an
unlisted or unpublished telephone number. However, nothing in this
subdivision shall be interpreted by the commission to reduce the
revenues of telephone corporations. Any actions of the commission
pursuant to this subdivision shall be implemented on a competitively
neutral basis. This charge shall not be eliminated prior to the
effective date upon which offsetting rates are implemented by the
commission.