§ 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, an intercepting device,
the design of which renders it primarily useful for the purpose of the surreptitious
interception of a wire or oral communication shall be imprisoned not more than five
(5)years and fined not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000);
(b) It shall not be unlawful under this section for a communication common carrier or
an officer, agent, or e
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§ 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, an intercepting device,
the design of which renders it primarily useful for the purpose of the surreptitious
interception of a wire or oral communication shall be imprisoned not more than five
(5) years and fined not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000);
(b) It shall not be unlawful under this section for a communication common carrier or
an officer, agent, or employee of, or a person under contract with, a communication
common carrier, in the usual course of the communication common carrier's business,
or a person under contract with the United 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 States
or a state or political subdivision of it or a communication common carrier.
Rhode Island § 11-35-24 (§ 11-35-24. Possession, sale, distribution, manufacture and advertising of intercepting device.) — published by Counsel Stack Legal Research, free access to 12M+ legal documents.