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Title 47 — Telecommunications

Chapter 9 — Interception of Digital and Other Communications

§ 1004. Systems security and integrity

Statutory text

A telecommunications carrier shall ensure that any interception of communications or access to call-identifying information effected within its switching premises can be activated only in accordance with a court order or other lawful authorization and with the affirmative intervention of an individual officer or employee of the carrier acting in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Commission.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act

    Pub. L. 103–414 title I § 105 · 108 Stat. 4279

    Enacted · 47 U.S.C. § 1004

    (Pub. L. 103–414, title I, § 105, Oct. 25, 1994, 108 Stat. 4283.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 103–414, title I, § 105, Oct. 25, 1994, 108 Stat. 4283.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 105. SYSTEMS SECURITY AND INTEGRITY. A telecommunications carrier shall ensure that any interception of communications or access to call-identifying information effected within its switching premises can be activated only in accordance with a court order or other lawful authorization and with the affirmative intervention of an individual officer or employee of the carrier acting in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Commission.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective on the date that is 4 years after , see section 111(b) of Pub. L. 103–414, set out as a note under section 1001 of this title.

Credits

(Pub. L. 103–414, title I, § 105, , 108 Stat. 4283.)

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