2018 North Carolina General Statutes
Chapter 14 - Criminal Law
Article 50 - Protection of Letters, Telegrams, and Telephone Messages.
§ 14-371 - Violating privacy of telegraphic messages; failure to transmit and deliver same promptly.
14-371. Violating privacy of telegraphic messages; failure to transmit and deliver same promptly.
If any person wrongfully obtains, or attempts to obtain, any knowledge of a telegraphic message by connivance with a clerk, operator, messenger, or other employee of a telegraph company, or, being such clerk, operator, messenger, or other employee, willfully divulges to any but the person for whom it was intended, the contents of a telegraphic message or dispatch intrusted to him for transmission or delivery, or the nature thereof, or willfully refuse or neglect duly to transmit or deliver the same, he shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor. (1889, c. 41, s. 1; Rev., s. 3846; C.S., s. 4498; 1993, c. 539, s. 249; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c).)
