Okla. Stat. tit. 13, § 13-176.2: Definitions

As used in the Security of Communications Act:

1. "Aggrieved person" means a person who was a party to any

intercepted wire, oral or electronic communication or a person

against whom the interception was directed;

2. "Aural acquisition" means obtaining knowledge of a

communication through the sense of hearing which is contemporaneous

with the communication;

3. "Aural transfer" means a transfer containing the human voice

at any point between and including the point of origin and the point

of reception;

4. "Communication common carrier" means, for the purposes of

the Security of Communications Act only, any telephone or telegraph

company, rural telephone cooperative, communications transmission

company or other public communications company under the laws of

this state;

5. "Communication facility" means any and all public and

private instrumentalities used or useful in the transmission of

writing, signs, signals, pictures, or sounds of all kinds and

includes mail, telephone, wire, radio, and all other means of

communication;

6. "Contents", when used with respect to any wire, oral or

electronic communication, includes any information concerning the

substance, purport or meaning of that communication;

7. "Electronic communication" means any transfer of signs,

signals, writing, images, sounds, data, or intelligence of any

nature transmitted in whole or in part by a wire, radio,

electromagnetic, photoelectronic or photo-optical system, but does

not include:

a. any wire or oral communication,

b. any communication made through a tone-only paging

device, or

c. any communication from a tracking device;

8. "Electronic, mechanical or other device" means any device or

apparatus which can be used to intercept a wire, oral or electronic

communication other than:

a. any telephone or telegraph instrument, equipment or

facility or any component thereof furnished to the

subscriber or user by a communication common carrier

or other lawful supplier in the ordinary course of its

business which is being used by the subscriber or user

in the ordinary course of its business, or being used

by a communication common carrier in the ordinary

course of business or being used by a law enforcement

officer in the ordinary course of duties, or

b. a hearing aid or similar device being used to correct

subnormal hearing to not better than normal;

9. "Intercept" means the aural acquisition of the contents of

any wire, oral or electronic communication through the use of any

electronic, mechanical or other device;

10. "Judge of competent jurisdiction" means the Presiding Judge

of the Court of Criminal Appeals or any other Judge of the Court of

Criminal Appeals designated by the Presiding Judge;

11. "Law enforcement officer" means any person who is employed

by the United States, this state or political subdivision thereof

and is empowered by law to conduct investigations of, or to make

arrests for, offenses enumerated in the Security of Communications

Act or similar federal offenses and any attorney authorized by law

to prosecute or participate in the prosecution of such offenses;

12. "Oral communication" means any communication uttered by a

person exhibiting an expectation that such communication is not

subject to interception under circumstance justifying such

expectation;

13. "Person" means any individual, partnership, association,

joint-stock company, trust, corporation or political subdivision

including an employee or agent thereof; and

14. "Wire communication" means any aural transfer made in whole

or in part through the use of facilities for the transmission of

communications by the aid of wire, cable or other like connection

between the point of origin and the point of reception, including

the use of such connection in a switching station, furnished or

operated by any person engaged in providing or operating such

of; and

14. "Wire communication" means any aural transfer made in whole

or in part through the use of facilities for the transmission of

communications by the aid of wire, cable or other like connection

between the point of origin and the point of reception, including

the use of such connection in a switching station, furnished or

operated by any person engaged in providing or operating such

facilities for the transmission of intrastate, interstate or foreign

communications or communications affecting intrastate, interstate or

foreign commerce.