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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 09:16:48 EST
- From: lvc@cbvox1.att.com (Lawrence V Cipriani)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Legality of City Ordinances Against Junk Calls?
- Message-ID: <telecom12.927.2@eecs.nwu.edu>
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- Some Ohio cities [e.g., Bedford] have ordinances against telephone
- solicitations. What is the legality of such an ordinance? Does
- federal or Ohio state law preempt this ordinance somehow and allow
- telephone solictations in spite of city ordinances? And what are the
- jurisdictional issues? So this small city has an ordinance; the
- marketer is in another city, or even another state. The solicitors
- probably just shrug and go on to the next phone number.
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- Larry Cipriani, att!cbvox1!lvc or lvc@cbvox1.att.com
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- [Moderator's Note: Well, it is a lot like the soon-to-be and ex-cons
- in the Chicago City Council passing an ordinance saying Chicago is a
- 'nuclear free zone ...' .. about as stupid as they come. We can no
- more keep bombs from landing here than Bedford, OH can keep people out
- of their jurisdiction from ringing their telephones or citizens in CA
- or PA can keep people out of state from seeing their phone numbers.
- Maybe the Bedford authorities had nothing better to work on that day. PAT]
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