New Hampshire Revised Statutes 570-B:4 – Application for an Order for a Pen Register or a Trap and Trace Device
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I. The attorney general or the deputy attorney general may make an application to the superior court for an order or an extension of an order under N.H. Rev. Stat. § 570-B:5, authorizing or approving the installation and use of a pen register or a trap and trace device under this chapter, in writing under oath or equivalent affirmation to a court of competent jurisdiction.
II. An application under this chapter shall include:
(a) The identity of the attorney for the state making the application and the identity of the law enforcement agency conducting the investigation; and
(b) A certification by the applicant that the information likely to be obtained is relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation being conducted by that agency.
II. An application under this chapter shall include:
Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 570-B:4
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Pen register: means a device which records or decodes electronic or other impulses which identify the numbers dialed or otherwise transmitted on the telephone line to which such device is attached, but such term does not include any device used by a provider or customer of a telecommunication service for billing, or recording as an incident to billing, for communications services provided by such provider or any device used by a provider or customer of a telecommunication service for cost accounting or other like purposes in the ordinary course of its business. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 570-B:1
- state: when applied to different parts of the United States, may extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4
- Trap and trace device: means a device which captures the incoming electronic or other impulses which identify the originating number of an instrument or device from which a telecommunication was transmitted. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 570-B:1
(a) The identity of the attorney for the state making the application and the identity of the law enforcement agency conducting the investigation; and
(b) A certification by the applicant that the information likely to be obtained is relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation being conducted by that agency.