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Any person who, without authorization and for the purpose of finding out or allowing any other person to find out, acquires documents, letters, emails or any other documents or personal effects belonging to another person, or intercepts another person’s telecommunications by any means, or retrieves or allows anyone else to retrieve communications records, consignments, and mail exchanged through entities that provide such services, or uses technical devices or mechanisms to listen into, transmit, record or reproduce any text, sound, image, or any other communication signal or alters the contents thereof, shall be guilty of a fourth degree felony. For purposes of this section, the fact that a person has access to the documents, personal effects or communications referred to as part of his/her official business duties shall not constitute in itself an 'authorization' to find out or make use of such information beyond that which strictly constitutes his/her business duties.\nHistory —June 18, 2004, No. 149, § 182; Sept. 16, 2004, No. 338, § 7; Oct. 7, 2009, No. 115, § 1.