2013 Idaho Statutes
Title 18 - CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
Chapter 67 - COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY
Section 18-6701 - DEFINITIONS.
(1) "Wire communication" means any aural transfer made in whole or in part through the use of facilities for the transmission of communications by the aid of wire, cable, or other like connection between the point of origin and the point of reception (including the use of such connection in a switching station), furnished or operated by any person engaged in providing or operating such facilities for the transmission of intrastate, interstate or foreign communications.
(2) "Oral communication" means any oral communication uttered by a person exhibiting an expectation that such communication is not subject to interception under circumstances justifying such expectation but such term does not include any electronic communication.
(3) "Intercept" means the aural or other acquisition of the contents of any wire, electronic or oral communication through the use of any electronic, mechanical, or other device.
(4) "Electronic, mechanical, or other device" means any device or apparatus which can be used to intercept a wire, electronic or oral communication other than:
(5) "Person" means any employee or agent of the state or political subdivision thereof and any individual, partnership, association, joint stock company, trust, cooperative, or corporation.
(6) "Investigative or law enforcement officer" means any officer of the state of Idaho who is empowered by law to conduct investigations of, or to make arrests for, offenses enumerated in this chapter and any attorney authorized by law to prosecute or participate in the prosecution of such offenses.
(7) "Contents" when used with respect to any wire, electronic or oral communication includes any information concerning the identity of the parties to such communication or the existence, substance, purport, or meaning of that communication.
(8) "Judge of competent jurisdiction" means a justice of the supreme court or a judge of a district court.
(9) "Aggrieved person" means a person who was a party to any illegally intercepted wire, electronic or oral communication or a person against whom the interception was illegally directed.
(10) "Electronic communication" means any transfer of signs, signals, writing, images, sounds, data or intelligence of any nature transmitted in whole or in part by a wire, radio, electromagnetic, photoelectronic or photooptical system, but does not include:
(11) "User" means any person or entity who:
(12) "Electronic communications system" means any wire, radio, electromagnetic, photoelectronic or photooptical facilities for the transmission of electronic communications, and any computer facilities or related electronic equipment for the electronic storage of such communications.
(13) "Electronic communication service" means any service that provides to the users thereof the ability to send or receive wire or electronic communications.
(14) "Readily accessible to the general public" means, with respect to a radio communication, that such communication is not:
(15) "Electronic storage" means:
(16) "Aural transfer" means a transfer containing the human voice at any point between and including the point of origin and the point of reception.
History:
[18-6701, added 1980, ch. 326, sec. 2, p. 833; am. 2002, ch. 223, sec. 1, p. 632.]
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