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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="14-3002" title_number="14" title_name="Miscellaneous Consumer Protection Provisions" subtitle_number="30" subtitle_name="Commercial Electronic Mail">
  <level label="a">
    <text>This section does not apply to an interactive computer service provider or a telecommunication utility to the extent that the interactive computer service provider or the telecommunication utility merely handles, retransmits, or carries a transmission of commercial electronic mail.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A person may not initiate the transmission, conspire with another person to initiate the transmission, or assist in the transmission of commercial electronic mail that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Is from a computer in the State or is sent to an electronic mail address that the sender knows or should have known is held by a resident of the State; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>Uses a third party’s Internet domain name or electronic mail address without the permission of the third party;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Contains false or misleading information about the origin or the transmission path of the commercial electronic mail; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Contains false or misleading information in the subject line that has the capacity, tendency, or effect of deceiving the recipient.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A person is presumed to know that the intended recipient of commercial electronic mail is a resident of the State if the information is available on request from the registrant of the Internet domain name contained in the recipient’s electronic mail address.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>An interactive computer service provider:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>May block the receipt or transmission through its interactive computer service of commercial electronic mail that it reasonably believes is or will be sent in apparent violation of this section; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>May not be held liable for an action under item (1) of this subsection that is voluntarily taken in good faith.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
