Tex. Util. Code § 55.128 · Subchapter F. AUTOMATIC DIAL ANNOUNCING DEVICES
DURATION OF RECORDED MESSAGE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
A person may not use an automated dial announcing device to make for solicitation purposes a telephone call in which the device plays a recorded message when the connection is completed unless:
(1) the recorded message is shorter than 30 seconds; or
(2) the device has the technical capacity to:
(A) recognize a telephone answering device on the called person's line; and
(B) terminate the call within 30 seconds.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997. Amended by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 62, Sec. 18.05(f), eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/UT/htm/UT.55.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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