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      22-2529.   Same; definitions. As used in K.S.A. 22-2522 through 22-2529:

      (1)   "Court of competent jurisdiction" means a district court or appellate court;

      (2)   "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 shall not include any device used by a provider or customer of an 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 an electronic communication service for cost accounting or other like purposes in the ordinary course of its business;

      (3)   "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; and

      (4)   "attorney for the government" means a county attorney, assistant county attorney, district attorney, assistant district attorney, attorney general or assistant attorney general.

      History:   L. 1988, ch. 117, § 10; July 1.