2014 North Carolina General Statutes
Chapter 14 - Criminal Law.
Article 50 - Protection of Letters, Telegrams, and Telephone Messages.
§ 14-372 - Unauthorized opening, reading or publishing of sealed letters and telegrams.
14-372. Unauthorized opening, reading or publishing of sealed letters and telegrams.
If any person shall willfully, and without authority, open or read, or cause to be opened or read, a sealed letter or telegram, or shall publish the whole or any portion of such letter or telegram, knowing it to have been opened or read without authority, he shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor. (1889, c. 41, s. 2; Rev., s. 3728; C.S., s. 4499; 1993, c. 539, s. 250; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c).)
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