2012 New York Consolidated Laws
CPL - Criminal Procedure
Part 3 - SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS AND MISCELLANEOUS PROCEDURES
Title T - PROCEDURES FOR SECURING EVIDENCE BY MEANS OF COURT ORDER AND FOR SUPPRESSING EVIDENCE UNLAWFULLY OR IMPROPERLY OBTAINED
Article 705 - (705.00 - 705.35) PEN REGISTERS AND TRAP AND TRACE DEVICES
705.00 - Definitions.

 
  § 705.00 Definitions.
    As  used  in  this  article,  the  following  terms have the following
  meanings:
    1. "Pen register" means a device which records or  decodes  electronic
  or  other  impulses  which  identify  the  numbers  dialed  or otherwise
  transmitted on the telephone line to which such device is attached,  but
  such  term does not include any device used by a provider or customer of
  a wire or electronic communication service for billing, or recording  as
  an  incident  to  billing,  for communications services provided by such
  provider or any device  used  by  a  provider  or  customer  of  a  wire
  communication  service for cost accounting or other like purposes in the
  ordinary course of its business.
    2. "Trap and trace device" means a device which captures the  incoming
  electronic or other impulses which identify the originating number of an
  instrument  or  device from which a wire or electronic communication was
  transmitted.
    3. "Applicant"  means  a  district  attorney,  an  assistant  district
  attorney, and when empowered by law to conduct an investigation of or to
  prosecute  or  participate in the prosecution of a designated crime, the
  attorney general, an assistant attorney  general,  the  deputy  attorney
  general  in  charge  of  the statewide organized crime task force, or an
  assistant deputy attorney general of such task force.
    4. "Law enforcement agency" means any agency which is empowered by law
  to conduct an investigation or to make an arrest for a felony,  and  any
  agency  which  is  authorized  by law to prosecute or participate in the
  prosecution of a felony.
    5. "Designated crime" means any crime included within  the  definition
  of a "designated offense" in subdivision eight of section 700.05 of this
  chapter,  any  criminal  act  as  defined  in subdivision one of section
  460.10 of the penal law, bail jumping in the first and second degree  as
  defined  in  sections  215.57  and  215.56  of such law, or   aggravated
  harassment as defined in subdivisions one and two of section  240.30  of
  such law.
    6.  "Justice"  means justice as defined in subdivision four of section
  700.05 of this chapter.