18.2-166 - Disclosing or inducing disclosure of certain information concerning customers of telephone companies.

§ 18.2-166. Disclosing or inducing disclosure of certain informationconcerning customers of telephone companies.

Any person:

(1) Who is an employee of a telephone company, or an employee of a companywhich prints or otherwise handles lists of telephone customers for atelephone company and who discloses to another the names, addresses, ortelephone numbers of any two or more customers of telephone service, knowingthat such disclosure is without the consent of the telephone companyfurnishing said service; or

(2) Who knowingly induces such an employee to make such disclosure by giving,offering, or promising to such employee any gift, gratuity, or thing ofvalue, or by doing or promising to do any act beneficial to such employee; or

(3) Who takes, copies, or compiles any list containing the aforesaidinformation knowing that such conduct is without the consent of the telephonecompany furnishing said service; or

(4) Who attempts, aids or abets another, or conspires with another, to commitany of the aforesaid acts,

shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor.

(Code 1950, § 18.1-417.1; 1968, c. 332; 1975, cc. 14, 15.)