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                <ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Senator Niello</ns0:AuthorText>
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                <ns0:Title> An act to amend Section 635 of the Penal Code, relating to cellular telephones. </ns0:Title>
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                        <ns0:Subject>Cellular telephones: communications interceptions.</ns0:Subject>
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                        <html:p>Existing law makes a person who, among other things, intercepts, receives, or assists in intercepting or receiving, a communication transmitted between cellular radio telephones or between a cellular radio telephone and a landline telephone guilty of a crime, unless consented to by all parties to the communications. Under existing law, subject to specified exceptions, a person who manufactures, assembles, sells, or offers for sale, advertises for sale, possesses, transports, imports, or furnishes to another person a device that is primarily or exclusively designed or intended for eavesdropping upon the communication of another person, in violation of the prohibition described above is punishable by a fine not exceeding $2,500, by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or in the state prison, or by both that fine and imprisonment.</html:p>
                        <html:p>This bill would make nonsubstantive, technical changes to that latter existing provision.</html:p>
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                <ns0:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</ns0:Preamble>
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                        <ns0:Num>SECTION 1.</ns0:Num>
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                                Section 635 of the
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                                        <ns0:Num>635.</ns0:Num>
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                                                                (a)
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                                                                A person who manufactures, assembles, sells, offers for sale, advertises for sale, possesses, transports, imports, or furnishes to another person a device
                                  that
                                  is primarily or exclusively designed or intended for eavesdropping upon the communication of another person, or a device that is primarily or exclusively designed or intended for the unauthorized interception or reception of communications between cellular radio telephones or between a cellular radio telephone and a landline telephone in violation of Section 632.5, or communications between cordless telephones
                                  or between a cordless telephone and a landline telephone in violation of Section 632.6, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500), by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or in the state prison, or by both that fine and imprisonment. A person who has previously been convicted of
                                  violating
                                  this section shall be punished by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or in the state prison, or by both that fine and imprisonment.
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                                                                (b)
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                                                                This section does not apply to either of the following:
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                                                                (1)
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                                                                An act otherwise prohibited by this section when performed by any of the following:
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                                                                (A)
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                                                                A communication utility or an officer, employee
                                  or agent
                                  of a communication utility for the purpose of construction, maintenance, conduct, or operation of, or otherwise incident to the use of, the services or facilities of that utility.
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                                                                (B)
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                                                                A state, county, or municipal law enforcement agency or an agency of the federal government.
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                                                                (C)
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                                                                A person engaged in selling devices specified in subdivision (a) for use by, or resale to, an agency of a foreign government under terms approved by the federal government,
                                  a
                                  communication utility, state, county, or municipal law enforcement agency, or a federal government agency.
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                                                                (2)
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                                                                Possession by a subscriber to communication utility service of a device specified in subdivision (a) furnished by the utility pursuant to its tariffs.
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