CHAPTER 332

An Act to prohibit the disclosure by certain persons of certain information
concerning customers of telephone companies; to prohibit the induce-
ment of such employees to make such disclosures; to prohibit the tak-
ing, copying or compiling any lists therefrom without authorization;
to prohibit the conspiracy to commit such act; and to provide a penalty
for violations.

[H 1034]

Approved April 2, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. § 1. Any person (1) who is an employee of a telephone company,
or an employee of a company which prints or otherwise handles lists of
telephone customers for a telephone company and who discloses to another
the names, addresses, or telephone numbers of any two or more customers
of telephone service, knowing that such disclosure is without the consent
of the telephone company furnishing said service; or ;

(2) who knowingly induces such an employee to make such dis-
closure by giving, offering, or promising to such employee any gift,
gratuity, or thing of value, or by doing or promising to do any act bene-
ficial to such employee; or ;

(3) who takes, copies, or compiles any list containing the aforesaid
information knowing that such conduct is without the consent of the
telephone company furnishing said service; or

(4) who attempts, aids or abets another, or conspires with another,
to commit any of the aforesaid acts shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.