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North Carolina · Through S.L. 2026-30

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-370: Wrongfully obtaining or divulging knowledge of telephonic messages.

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Where this section sits in the code
  1. Chapter 14. Criminal Law.
  2. SUBCHAPTER XI. GENERAL POLICE REGULATIONS.
  3. Article 50. Protection of Letters, Telegrams, and Telephone Messages.

If any person wrongfully obtains, or attempts to obtain, any knowledge of a telephonic message by connivance with a clerk, operator, messenger or other employee of a telephone company, or, being such clerk, operator, messenger or employee, willfully divulges to any but the person for whom it was intended, the contents of a telephonic message or dispatch intrusted to him for transmission or delivery, or the nature thereof, he shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor. (1903, c. 599; Rev., s. 3848; C.S., s. 4497; 1993, c. 539, s. 248; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c).)

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