California Penal Code CHAPTER 1.4 - Interception of Wire, Electronic Digital Pager, or Electronic Cellular Telephone Communications

• Section 629.50.
  (a) Each application for an order authorizing the interception of a wire or electronic communication shall be made in writing upon the personal oath or affirmation...
• Section 629.51.
  (a) For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings:(1) “Wire communication” means any aural transfer made in whole or in part through...
• Section 629.52.
  Upon application made under Section 629.50, the judge may enter an ex parte order, as requested or modified, authorizing interception of wire or electronic communications...
• Section 629.53.
  The Judicial Council may establish guidelines for judges to follow in granting an order authorizing the interception of any wire or electronic communications.(Amended by Stats....
• Section 629.54.
  Each order authorizing the interception of any wire or electronic communication shall specify all of the following:(a) The identity, if known, of the person whose communications...
• Section 629.56.
  (a) Upon informal application by the Attorney General, Chief Deputy Attorney General, or Chief Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Law Division, or a district attorney, or the...
• Section 629.58.
  No order entered under this chapter shall authorize the interception of any wire or electronic communication for any period longer than is necessary to achieve...
• Section 629.60.
  Whenever an order authorizing an interception is entered, the order shall require reports in writing or otherwise to be made to the judge who issued...
• Section 629.61.
  (a) Whenever an order authorizing an interception is entered, the order shall require a report in writing or otherwise to be made to the Attorney General...
• Section 629.62.
  (a) The Attorney General shall prepare and submit an annual report to the Legislature, the Judicial Council, and the Director of the Administrative Office of the...
• Section 629.64.
  The contents of any wire or electronic communication intercepted by any means authorized by this chapter shall, if possible, be recorded on any recording media....
• Section 629.66.
  Applications made and orders granted pursuant to this chapter shall be sealed by the judge. Custody of the applications and orders shall be where the...
• Section 629.68.
  Within a reasonable time, but no later than 90 days, after the termination of the period of an order or extensions thereof, or after the...
• Section 629.70.
  (a) A defendant shall be notified that he or she was identified as the result of an interception that was obtained pursuant to this chapter. The...
• Section 629.72.
  Any person in any trial, hearing, or proceeding, may move to suppress some or all of the contents of any intercepted wire or electronic communications,...
• Section 629.74.
  The Attorney General, any deputy attorney general, district attorney, or deputy district attorney, or any peace officer who, by any means authorized by this chapter,...
• Section 629.76.
  The Attorney General, any deputy attorney general, district attorney, or deputy district attorney, or any peace officer or federal law enforcement officer who, by any...
• Section 629.78.
  Any person who has received, by any means authorized by this chapter, any information concerning a wire or electronic communication, or evidence derived therefrom, intercepted...
• Section 629.80.
  No otherwise privileged communication intercepted in accordance with, or in violation of, the provisions of this chapter shall lose its privileged character. When a peace...
• Section 629.82.
  (a) If a peace officer or federal law enforcement officer, while engaged in intercepting wire or electronic communications in the manner authorized by this chapter, intercepts...
• Section 629.84.
  Any violation of this chapter is punishable by a fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500), or by imprisonment in the county jail...
• Section 629.86.
  Any person whose wire or electronic communication is intercepted, disclosed, or used in violation of this chapter shall have the following remedies:(a) Have a civil cause...
• Section 629.88.
  Nothing in Section 631, 632.5, 632.6, or 632.7 shall be construed as prohibiting any peace officer or federal law enforcement officer from intercepting any wire...
• Section 629.89.
  No order issued pursuant to this chapter shall either directly or indirectly authorize covert entry into or upon the premises of a residential dwelling, hotel...
• Section 629.90.
  An order authorizing the interception of a wire or electronic communication shall direct, upon request of the applicant, that a public utility engaged in the...
• Section 629.91.
  A good faith reliance on a court order issued in accordance with this chapter by any public utility, landlord, custodian, or any other person furnishing...
• Section 629.92.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any court to which an application is made in accordance with this chapter may take any evidence, make any...
• Section 629.94.
  (a) The Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, in consultation with the Attorney General, shall establish a course of training in the legal, practical, and...
• Section 629.96.
  If any provision of this chapter, or the application thereof to any person or circumstances, is held invalid, the remainder of the chapter, and the...
• Section 629.98.
  This chapter shall only remain in effect until January 1, 2020, and as of that date is repealed.(Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 745, Sec. 1....

Last modified: October 22, 2018