North Dakota § 8-10-09 Disclosing telegraph and telephone messages - Penalty

North Dakota Statutes

§ 8-10-09 — Disclosing telegraph and telephone messages - Penalty

North Dakota § 8-10-09

Title 8Carriage

Ch. 8-10Common Carriers of Messages

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Bluebook

N.D. Cent. Code § 8-10-09 (2026).

Text

Every person who willfully obtains any knowledge of a telegraphic or telephonic message,
by connivance with a clerk, operator, messenger, or other employee of a telegraph or telephone
company, and every clerk, operator, messenger, or other employee who willfully divulges to any
but the person for whom it was intended, the contents of any telephonic or telegraphic message
entrusted to that person for transmission or delivery, or the nature thereof, or who willfully
refuses or fails to duly transmit or deliver any such message, is guilty of a class A misdemeanor.

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Every person who willfully obtains any knowledge of a telegraphic or telephonic message,
by connivance with a clerk, operator, messenger, or other employee of a telegraph or telephone
company, and every clerk, operator, messenger, or other employee who willfully divulges to any
but the person for whom it was intended, the contents of any telephonic or telegraphic message
entrusted to that person for transmission or delivery, or the nature thereof, or who willfully
refuses or fails to duly transmit or deliver any such message, is guilty of a class A misdemeanor.