18 U.S.C. § 3122
Current through P.L. 118-44 (published on www.congress.gov on 03/18/2024), except for [P. L. 118-42]
18 U.S.C. § 3122
STATUTORY NOTES AND RELATED SUBSIDIARIES
EFFECTIVE DATESection effective 90 days after Oct. 21, 1986, and, in case of conduct pursuant to court order or extension, applicable only with respect to court orders and extensions made after such date, with special rule for State authorizations of interceptions, see section 302 of Pub. L. 99-508 set out as a note under section 3121 of this title.
- State
- the term "State" means a State, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and any other possession or territory of the United States.
- court of competent jurisdiction
- the term "court of competent jurisdiction" means-(A) any district court of the United States (including a magistrate judge of such a court) or any United States court of appeals that-(i) has jurisdiction over the offense being investigated;(ii) is in or for a district in which the provider of a wire or electronic communication service is located;(iii) is in or for a district in which a landlord, custodian, or other person subject to subsections (a) or (b) of section 3124 of this title is located; or(iv) is acting on a request for foreign assistance pursuant to section 3512 of this title; or(B) a court of general criminal jurisdiction of a State authorized by the law of that State to enter orders authorizing the use of a pen register or a trap and trace device;
- pen register
- the term "pen register" means a device or process which records or decodes dialing, routing, addressing, or signaling information transmitted by an instrument or facility from which a wire or electronic communication is transmitted, provided, however, that such information shall not include the contents of any communication, but such term does not include any device or process used by a provider or customer of a wire or electronic communication service for billing, or recording as an incident to billing, for communications services provided by such provider or any device or process 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;
- trap and trace device
- the term "trap and trace device" means a device or process which captures the incoming electronic or other impulses which identify the originating number or other dialing, routing, addressing, and signaling information reasonably likely to identify the source of a wire or electronic communication, provided, however, that such information shall not include the contents of any communication;