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609.894.1(i)

Statute ID: 3388

Statute Function ID: 19605

Cellular Telephone Counterfeiting-Define/Provider/Licensed Seller

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Statute Number:

609.894.1(i)

Enactment Date:

Jan 1, 1859

Effective Date:

Aug 1, 1996

Expiration Date:

Repealed?:

Summary Text:

Cellular Telephone Counterfeiting-Define/Provider/Licensed Seller

Statute ID:

3388

Created:

Sep 1, 2006 by mnjis.legal.analyst@state.mn.us

Updated:

Sep 1, 2006 by mnjis.legal.analyst@state.mn.us

Last Update Action:

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Summary Text:

Cellular Telephone Counterfeiting-Define/Provider/Licensed Seller

Link to MN Statute Text:

https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/stats/609/894.html

Legislative Session:

0 - NA

Session Law Text?:

Statute text last updated on:

Sep 1, 2006

The definitions in this subdivision apply to this section.
(a) "Cellular telephone" means a radio telecommunications device that may be used to obtain access to the public and cellular switch telephone networks and that is programmed by the manufacturer with an electronic serial number.
(b) "Cellular telephone service" means all services and cellular telephone equipment and capabilities available from a provider to an end user for a fee.
(c) "Cloned cellular telephone" or "counterfeit cellular telephone" means a cellular telephone, the electronic serial number of which has been altered by someone other than the manufacturer.
(d) "Telephone cloning paraphernalia" means materials that, when possessed in combination, are capable of creating a cloned cellular telephone. Telephone cloning paraphernalia includes, but is not limited to:
(1) scanners to intercept electronic serial numbers and mobile identification numbers;
(2) cellular telephones;
(3) cables;
(4) EPROM chips;
(5) EPROM burners;
(6) software for programming the cellular telephone with a false electronic serial number, mobile identification number, other identifiable data, or a combination of those items;
(7) computers containing software described in clause (6); and
(8) lists of electronic serial number and mobile identification number combinations.
(e) "Electronic serial number" means a unique number that is programmed into a cellular telephone by the manufacturer, transmitted by the cellular telephone, and used by cellular telephone providers to validate radio transmissions to the system as having been made by an authorized device.
(f) "End user" is a person who pays a fee to subscribe to cellular telephone service from a provider or a person receiving a call from or sending a call to the person paying or subscribing for cellular telephone service.
(g) "Intercept" means to electronically capture, record, reveal, or otherwise access the signals emitted or received during the operation of a cellular telephone by any instrument, device, or equipment without the consent of the sender or receiver.
(h) "Mobile identification number" means the cellular telephone number assigned to the cellular telephone by the cellular telephone provider.
(i) "Provider" means a licensed seller of cellular telephone service or a reselling agent authorized by a licensed seller.