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      21-4002.   Breach of privacy. (a) Breach of privacy is knowingly and without lawful authority:

      (1)   Intercepting, without the consent of the sender or receiver, a message by telephone, telegraph, letter or other means of private communication; or

      (2)   Divulging, without the consent of the sender or receiver, the existence or contents of such message if such person knows that the message was illegally intercepted, or if such person illegally learned of the message in the course of employment with an agency in transmitting it.

      (b)   Subsection (a)(1) shall not apply to messages overheard through a regularly installed instrument on a telephone party line or on an extension.

      (c)   Breach of privacy is a class A nonperson misdemeanor.

      History:   L. 1969, ch. 180, § 21-4002; L. 1992, ch. 239, § 185; L. 1993, ch. 291, § 133; July 1.