Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 9.73 - Privacy, Violating Right Of.
9.73.010 - Divulging telegram.

RCW 9.73.010
Divulging telegram.

Every person who shall wrongfully obtain or attempt to obtain, any knowledge of a telegraphic message, by connivance with the clerk, operator, messenger, or other employee of a telegraph company, and every clerk, operator, messenger, or other employee of such company who shall willfully divulge to any but the person for whom it was intended, any telegraphic message or dispatch intrusted to him or her for transmission or delivery, or the nature or contents thereof, or shall willfully refuse, neglect, or delay duly to transmit or deliver the same, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

[ 2011 c 336 § 323; 1909 c 249 § 410; Code 1881 § 2342; RRS § 2662.]
NOTES:

Intercepting, delaying telegram: RCW 9A.48.070, 9A.48.080.

Structure Revised Code of Washington

Revised Code of Washington

Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments

Chapter 9.73 - Privacy, Violating Right Of.

9.73.010 - Divulging telegram.

9.73.020 - Opening sealed letter.

9.73.030 - Intercepting, recording, or divulging private communication—Consent required—Exceptions.

9.73.040 - Intercepting private communication—Court order permitting interception—Grounds for issuance—Duration—Renewal.

9.73.050 - Admissibility of intercepted communication in evidence.

9.73.060 - Violating right of privacy—Civil action—Liability for damages.

9.73.070 - Persons and activities excepted from chapter.

9.73.080 - Penalties.

9.73.090 - Certain emergency response personnel exempted from RCW 9.73.030 through 9.73.080—Standards—Court authorizations—Admissibility.

9.73.095 - Intercepting, recording, or divulging offender conversations—Conditions—Notice.

9.73.100 - Recordings available to defense counsel.

9.73.110 - Intercepting, recording, or disclosing private communications—Not unlawful for building owner—Conditions.

9.73.120 - Reports—Required, when, contents.

9.73.130 - Recording private communications—Authorization—Application for, contents.

9.73.140 - Recording private communications—Authorization of or application for—Inventory, contents, service—Availability of recording, applications, and orders.

9.73.200 - Intercepting, transmitting, or recording conversations concerning controlled substances—Findings.

9.73.210 - Intercepting, transmitting, or recording conversations concerning controlled substances or commercial sexual abuse of a minor—Authorization—Monthly report—Admissibility—Destruction of information.

9.73.220 - Judicial authorizations—Availability of judge required.

9.73.230 - Intercepting, transmitting, or recording conversations concerning controlled substances or commercial sexual abuse of a minor—Conditions—Written reports required—Judicial review—Notice—Admissibility—Penalties.

9.73.240 - Intercepting, transmitting, or recording conversations concerning controlled substances—Concurrent power of attorney general to investigate and prosecute.

9.73.260 - Pen registers, trap and trace devices, cell site simulator devices.

9.73.270 - Collecting, using electronic data or metadata—Cell site simulator devices—Requirements.