73 Pa. Stat. § 2603

Current through Pa Acts 2024-53, 2024-56 through 2024-92
Section 2603 - Prohibited deceptive business practice

It shall be considered a deceptive business practice and unlawful for a supplier to misrepresent its geographic location by listing a fictitious or assumed business name in a local telephone directory if all of the following apply:

(1) The listing fails to identify the locality and state of the supplier's business.
(2) The calls to the local telephone number are routinely forwarded or otherwise transferred to a supplier's business location that is outside the calling area covered by the local telephone directory.
(3) The supplier's business location is located in a county that is not contiguous to a county in the calling area covered by the local telephone directory.

73 P.S. § 2603

2006, Nov. 29, P.L. 1469, No. 164, § 3, imd. effective.