2016 California Code
Public Utilities Code - PUC
DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES
CHAPTER 3 - Telegraph or Telephone Corporations
Section 7907.
7907. Notwithstanding Section 591, 631, or 632 of the Penal Code or Section 7906 of this code, whenever the supervising law enforcement official having jurisdiction has probable cause to believe that a person is holding hostages and is committing a crime, or is barricaded and is resisting apprehension through the use or threatened use of force, such official may order a previously designated telephone corporation security employee to arrange to cut, reroute, or divert telephone lines for the purpose of preventing telephone communication by such suspected person with any person other than a peace officer or a person authorized by the peace officer.
The telephone corporation shall designate a person as its security employee and an alternate to provide all required assistance to law enforcement officials to carry out the purposes of this section.
Good faith reliance on an order by a supervising law enforcement official shall constitute a complete defense to any action brought under this section.
(Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 679, Sec. 1.)
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