As used in ORS § 41.910 and 133.721 to 133.739, unless the context requires otherwise:

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(1) ‘Aggrieved person‘ means a person who was a party to any wire, electronic or oral communication intercepted under ORS § 133.724 or 133.726 or a person against whom the interception was directed and who alleges that the interception was unlawful.

(2) ‘Contents,’ when used with respect to any wire, electronic or oral communication, includes any information concerning the identity of the parties to such communication or the existence, substance, purport or meaning of that communication.

(3) ‘Electronic communication’ means any transfer of signs, signals, writing, images, sounds, data or intelligence of any nature transmitted in whole or in part by a radio, electromagnetic, photoelectronic or photo-optical system, or transmitted in part by wire, but does not include:

(a) Any oral communication or any communication that is completely by wire; or

(b) Any communication made through a tone-only paging device.

(4) ‘Electronic, mechanical or other device’ means any device or apparatus that can be used to intercept a wire, electronic or oral communication other than:

(a) Any telephone or telegraph instrument, equipment or facility, or any component thereof that is furnished to the subscriber or user by a telecommunications carrier in the ordinary course of its business and that is being used by the subscriber or user in the ordinary course of its business or being used by a telecommunications carrier in the ordinary course of its business, or by an investigative or law enforcement officer in the ordinary course of official duties; or

(b) A hearing aid or similar device being used to correct subnormal hearing to not better than normal.

(5) ‘Intercept’ means the acquisition, by listening or recording, of the contents of any wire, electronic or oral communication through the use of any electronic, mechanical or other device.

(6) ‘Investigative or law enforcement officer’ means:

(a) An officer or other person employed to investigate or enforce the law by:

(A) A county sheriff or municipal police department, or a police department established by a university under ORS § 352.121 or 353.125;

(B) The Oregon State Police, the Department of Corrections, the Attorney General or a district attorney; or

(C) Law enforcement agencies of other states or the federal government;

(b) An authorized tribal police officer as defined in ORS § 181A.940; or

(c) A regulatory specialist exercising authority described in ORS § 471.775 (2).

(7) ‘Oral communication’ means:

(a) Any oral communication, other than a wire or electronic communication, uttered by a person exhibiting an expectation that such communication is not subject to interception under circumstances justifying such expectation; or

(b) An utterance by a person who is participating in a wire or electronic communication, if the utterance is audible to another person who, at the time the wire or electronic communication occurs, is in the immediate presence of the person participating in the communication.

(8) ‘Telecommunications carrier’ means:

(a) A telecommunications utility as defined in ORS § 759.005; or

(b) A cooperative corporation organized under ORS Chapter 62 that provides telecommunications services.

(9) ‘Telecommunications service’ has the meaning given that term in ORS § 759.005.

(10) ‘Wire communication’ means any communication made in whole or in part through the use of facilities for the transmission of communications by the aid of wire, cable or other like connection between the point of origin and the point of reception, whether furnished or operated by a public utility or privately owned or leased. [1979 c.716 § 2; 1983 c.824 § 6; 1987 c.320 § 18; 1987 c.447 § 103; 1989 c.983 § 6; 1999 c.1093 § 1; 2001 c.385 § 1; 2003 c.14 § 53; 2005 c.22 § 104; 2011 c.644 17,62,70; 2012 c.54 10,11; 2013 c.180 12,13; 2015 c.174 § 6; 2015 c.614 141,142]