Tennessee § 65-21-108 Priority of messages - Privacy

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§ 65-21-108 — Priority of messages - Privacy

Tennessee § 65-21-108

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Bluebook

Tenn. Code Ann. § 65-21-108 (2026).

Text

(a)All other messages, including those received from other telegraph or telephone companies, shall be transmitted in order of their delivery, correctly, and without unreasonable delay, and at the usual rates, and shall be kept strictly confidential, subject, however, to disclosure in any legal proceedings; provided, that arrangements may be made with the publishers of newspapers for the transmission of intelligence of general and public interest.

(b)Any officer or agent of a telegraph or telephone company who willfully violates subsection (a) commits a Class A misdemeanor, and the telegraph or telephone company so violating is liable in damages to the party aggrieved.

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(a) All other messages, including those received from other telegraph or telephone companies, shall be transmitted in order of their delivery, correctly, and without unreasonable delay, and at the usual rates, and shall be kept strictly confidential, subject, however, to disclosure in any legal proceedings; provided, that arrangements may be made with the publishers of newspapers for the transmission of intelligence of general and public interest. (b) Any officer or agent of a telegraph or telephone company who willfully violates subsection (a) commits a Class A misdemeanor, and the telegraph or telephone company so violating is liable in damages to the party aggrieved.

Legislative History

Acts 1875, ch. 142, § 8; 1885, ch. 66, §§ 7, 8; 1907, ch. 134, § 1; Shan., §§ 1837, 1838, 2445; Code 1932, §§ 3101, 3102, 4058; modified; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), §§ 65-2114, 65-2115; Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 111.