18 U.S.C. § 3127 : US Code - Section 3127: Definitions for chapter

Search 18 U.S.C. § 3127 : US Code - Section 3127: Definitions for chapter

As used in this chapter -
(1) the terms "wire communication", "electronic communication",
"electronic communication service", and "contents" have the
meanings set forth for such terms in section 2510 of this title;
(2) the term "court of competent jurisdiction" means -
(A) any district court of the United States (including a
magistrate judge of such a court) or any United States court of
appeals having jurisdiction over the offense being
investigated; or
(B) a court of general criminal jurisdiction of a State
authorized by the law of that State to enter orders authorizing
the use of a pen register or a trap and trace device;
(3) the term "pen register" means a device or process which
records or decodes dialing, routing, addressing, or signaling
information transmitted by an instrument or facility from which a
wire or electronic communication is transmitted, provided,
however, that such information shall not include the contents of
any communication, but such term does not include any device or
process used by a provider or customer of a wire or electronic
communication service for billing, or recording as an incident to
billing, for communications services provided by such provider or
any device or process used by a provider or customer of a wire
communication service for cost accounting or other like purposes
in the ordinary course of its business;
(4) the term "trap and trace device" means a device or process
which captures the incoming electronic or other impulses which
identify the originating number or other dialing, routing,
addressing, and signaling information reasonably likely to
identify the source of a wire or electronic communication,
provided, however, that such information shall not include the
contents of any communication;
(5) the term "attorney for the Government" has the meaning
given such term for the purposes of the Federal Rules of Criminal
Procedure; and
(6) the term "State" means a State, the District of Columbia,
Puerto Rico, and any other possession or territory of the United
States.