§ 11-35-24 - Possession, sale, distribution, manufacture and advertising of intercepting device.
SECTION 11-35-24
§ 11-35-24 Possession, sale, distribution,manufacture and advertising of intercepting device. – (a) Any person who willfully and knowingly possesses, sells, distributes,manufactures, assembles, or places in any publication any advertisement of, anintercepting device, the design of which renders it primarily useful for thepurpose of the surreptitious interception of a wire or oral communication shallbe imprisoned not more than five (5) years and fined not more than ten thousanddollars ($10,000);
(b) It shall not be unlawful under this section for acommunication common carrier or an officer, agent, or employee of, or a personunder contract with, a communication common carrier, in the usual course of thecommunication common carrier's business, or a person under contract with theUnited States or a state or a political subdivision of it, or an officer,agent, or employee of a state or a political subdivision of it, to possess,sell, distribute, manufacture, assemble, or advertise any intercepting device,while acting in furtherance of the appropriate activities of the United Statesor a state or political subdivision of it or a communication common carrier.