Nevada Code § 707.340

Public utility furnishing telephone service required to assist peace officers in tracing certain callers; immunity for good faith reliance; limitations concerning wiretapping
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1. Every public utility furnishing
telephone service in this state shall provide any lawful assistance requested
by a sheriff or the sheriffs deputy, or chief of police or police officer, in
tracing a person who uses:
(a) The 911 emergency telephone number or other
emergency telephone service.
(b) Obscene language, representations or
suggestions in addressing a person by telephone, or addresses to the person any
threat to inflict injury to the person or property of the person addressed,
when the request is made in writing to the public utility.
2. Good faith reliance by the public
utility on such a request constitutes a complete defense to any civil or
criminal suit against the public utility on account of assistance rendered by
the utility in responding to the request.
3. The provisions of subsection 1 do not
permit wiretapping, which may be engaged in only pursuant to the provisions of NRS 179.410 to 179.515 , inclusive, and 704.195 .

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