SENATE DOCKET, NO. 1489        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1720

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act Relavtive to wire-tapping in the Commonwealth..

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. Subparagraph 1 of paragraph D of section 99 of chapter 272 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding the following clause:- g. for a person not acting under color of law to intercept a wire or oral communication where such person is a party to the communication or where one of the parties to the communication has given prior consent to such interception, unless such communication is intercepted for the purpose of committing any criminal or tortious act in violation of the constitution or laws of the United States or of any State or for the purpose of committing any other injurious act.