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<section article="gcj" article_name="Courts and Judicial Proceedings" number="10-4A-03" title_number="10" title_name="Evidence" subtitle_number="4A" subtitle_name="Stored Wire and Electronic Communications and Transactional Records Access">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, a person or entity providing an electronic communication service to the public may not knowingly divulge to any other person or entity the contents of a communication while the communication is in electronic storage by that service.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, a person or entity providing remote computing service to the public may not knowingly divulge to any other person or entity the contents of any communication which is carried or maintained on that service:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>On behalf of, and received by means of electronic transmission from, or created by means of computer processing of communications received by means of electronic transmission from, a subscriber or customer of the service; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Solely for the purpose of providing storage or computer processing services to a subscriber or customer, if the provider is not authorized to access the contents of any communications for purposes of providing any services other than storage or computer processing.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A person or entity may divulge the contents of a communication:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>To an addressee or intended recipient of the communication or an agent of the addressee or intended recipient;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If authorized under the provisions of this subtitle;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>With the lawful consent of the originator or an addressee or intended recipient of the communication, or the subscriber in the case of remote computing service;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>To a person employed or authorized or whose facilities are used to forward the communication to its destination;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>If necessarily incident to the rendition of the service or to the protection of the rights or property of the provider of that service; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>To a law enforcement agency, if the contents:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Were inadvertently obtained by the service provider; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Appear to pertain to the commission of a crime.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
