Failure to report wiretapping · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 250.15 Failure to report wiretapping.
A telephone or telegraph corporation is guilty of failure to report wiretapping when, having knowledge of the occurrence of unlawful wiretapping, it does not report such matter to an appropriate law enforcement officer or agency.
Failure to report wiretapping is a class B misdemeanor.
A telephone or telegraph company that knows unlawful wiretapping occurred and fails to report it to appropriate law enforcement commits failure to report wiretapping, a class B misdemeanor. ★
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 4 — The Court Clerk: Penal Law; Volume 1 — The Court Officer in Plain English; Volume 3 — The Court Officer: Penal Law; Volume 3 — Your Career: Penal Law in Plain English.