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| 3 | 3 | | LCO No. 3216 1 of 2 |
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| 5 | 5 | | General Assembly Raised Bill No. 435 |
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| 6 | 6 | | February Session, 2022 |
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| 7 | 7 | | LCO No. 3216 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY |
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| 13 | 13 | | Introduced by: |
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| 14 | 14 | | (JUD) |
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| 19 | 19 | | AN ACT CONCERNING THE PERMISSIBLE RECORDING OF A |
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| 20 | 20 | | PRIVATE TELEPHONE CONVERSATION. |
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| 21 | 21 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General |
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| 22 | 22 | | Assembly convened: |
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| 24 | 24 | | Section 1. Subsection (a) of section 52-570d of the 2022 supplement to 1 |
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| 25 | 25 | | the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu 2 |
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| 26 | 26 | | thereof (Effective from passage): 3 |
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| 27 | 27 | | (a) No person shall use any instrument, device or equipment to 4 |
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| 28 | 28 | | record an oral private telephonic communication unless the use of such 5 |
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| 29 | 29 | | instrument, device or equipment (1) is preceded by consent of [all 6 |
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| 30 | 30 | | parties] at least one party to the communication and such prior consent 7 |
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| 31 | 31 | | either is obtained in writing or is part of, and obtained at the start of, the 8 |
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| 32 | 32 | | recording, or (2) is preceded by verbal notification which is recorded at 9 |
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| 33 | 33 | | the beginning and is part of the communication by the recording party, 10 |
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| 34 | 34 | | or (3) is accompanied by an automatic tone warning device which 11 |
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| 35 | 35 | | automatically produces a distinct signal that is repeated at intervals of 12 |
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| 36 | 36 | | approximately fifteen seconds during the communication while such 13 |
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| 37 | 37 | | instrument, device or equipment is in use. 14 |
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| 38 | 38 | | LCO No. 3216 2 of 2 |
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| 40 | 40 | | This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following |
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| 41 | 41 | | sections: |
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| 43 | 43 | | Section 1 from passage 52-570d(a) |
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| 45 | 45 | | Statement of Purpose: |
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| 46 | 46 | | To permit a person to record a private telephone conversation when at |
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| 47 | 47 | | least one person, who is part of the conversation, consents to the |
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| 48 | 48 | | recording of the start of the conversation. |
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| 49 | 49 | | [Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except |
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| 50 | 50 | | that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not |
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| 51 | 51 | | underlined.] |
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