Business and Professions Code section 17363

Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, Sections 17361 and 17362 do not apply to any of the following:

(a)

Institutional advertising directed to a general audience rather than to individual purchasers of telephone equipment.

(b)

Advertising, point-of-sale advertising, catalogs for, and sales of, telephone equipment not intended for direct connection to a telephone corporation’s central switching office through the telephone corporation lines.

(c)

Catalogs and equipment packages for telephone equipment which are in print or in physical production on or before November 1, 1983.

(d)

Advertising by radio or television if the advertising includes a toll-free number by which a potential buyer may speak personally with a trained sales representative who orally provides the potential buyer with a disclosure statement containing both of the items required by Section 17361. The advertiser shall file the text of this disclosure statement with the Director of Consumer Affairs and shall amend the filed statement, as needed, to conform to any changes made in the disclosure statement used by the advertiser.