2011 Oregon Revised Statutes
ORS Volume 4, Chapters 131 - 170
ORS Chapter 165
165.657 Definitions for ORS 165.659 to 165.669.


OR Rev Stat § 165.657 (through Leg Sess 2011) What's This?

As used in ORS 165.659 to 165.669, unless the context requires otherwise:

(1) Electronic communication has the meaning given in ORS 133.721.

(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 does not include any device used by a provider or customer of a provider of electronic or wire 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 a wire communication service for cost accounting or other like purposes in the ordinary course of its business.

(3) Police officer has the meaning given in ORS 133.525.

(4) 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.

(5) Wire communication has the meaning given in ORS 133.721. [1989 c.983 15]

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