HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 721        FILED ON: 1/12/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1478

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act Relative to the Interception of Wire and Oral Communications..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1. Chapter 272 § 99, is amended by adding the following new paragraph in subsection D. Exemptions:             

e.  for any natural person who is not acting on behalf of, or in, an official government position, and who is not a member of, or in any way associated with organized crime, to intercept and secretly tape record a wire communication or oral communication when the recording is done for the sole purpose of protecting one’s life, liberty, character, or property.