Geistcepción Ilegal de Comunicaciones en Texas

(d) A person commits an offense if the person: (1) intentionally manufactures, assembles, possesses, or sells an interception device knowing or having reason to know that the device is designed primarily for nonconsensual interception of wire, electronic, or oral communications and that the device or a component of the device has been or will be used for an unlawful Statute text rendered on: 1/1/2025 - 75 - PENAL CODE purpose; or (2) places in a newspaper, magazine, handbill, or other publication an advertisement of an interception device: (A) knowing or having reason to know that the device is designed primarily for nonconsensual interception of wire, electronic, or oral communications; (B) promoting the use of the device for the purpose of nonconsensual interception of wire, electronic, or oral communications; or (C) knowing or having reason to know that the advertisement will promote the use of the device for the purpose of nonconsensual interception of wire, electronic, or oral communications. (e) It is an affirmative defense to prosecution under Subsection (d) that the manufacture, assembly, possession, or sale of an interception device that is designed primarily for the purpose of nonconsensual interception of wire, electronic, or oral communication is by: (1) a communication common carrier or a provider of wire or electronic communications service or an officer, agent, or employee of or a person under contract with a communication common carrier or service provider act