Oregon Statutes - Chapter 165 - Offenses Involving Fraud or Deception - Section 165.535 - Definitions applicable to obtaining contents of communications.

As used in ORS 41.910, 133.723, 133.724, 165.540 and 165.545:

(1) “Conversation” means the transmission between two or more persons of an oral communication which is not a telecommunication or a radio communication.

(2) “Person” means any person as defined in ORS 174.100 and includes public officials and law enforcement officers of the state, county, municipal corporation or any other political subdivision of the state.

(3) “Radio communication” means the transmission by radio or other wireless methods of writing, signs, signals, pictures and sounds of all kinds, including all instrumentalities, facilities, equipment and services (including, among other things, the receipt, forwarding and delivering of communications) incidental to such transmission.

(4) “Telecommunication” means the transmission of writing, signs, signals, pictures and sounds of all kinds by aid of wire, cable or other similar connection between the points of origin and reception of such transmission, including all instrumentalities, facilities, equipment and services (including, among other things, the receipt, forwarding and delivering of communications) incidental to such transmission. [1955 c.675 §1; 1959 c.681 §1; 1983 c.740 §34]

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