KRS 526.070: Eavesdropping -- Exceptions.

A person is not guilty under this chapter when he:

(1) Inadvertently overhears the communication through a regularly installed telephone

party line or on a telephone extension but does not divulge it; or

(2) Is an employee of a communications common carrie r who, while acting in the

course of his employment, intercepts, discloses or uses a communication

transmitted through the facilities of his employer for a purpose which is a necessary

incident to the rendition of the service or to the protection of the ri ghts or the

property of the carrier of such communication, provided however that

communications common carriers shall not utilize service observing or random

monitoring except for mechanical or service quality control checks.