Pen. Code, § 11470 · Article 7. Interruption of Communication
Pen. Code, § 11470
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
For the purposes of this article, the following terms have the following meanings:
(a) “Communication service” means any communication service that interconnects with the public switched telephone network and is required by the Federal Communications Commission to provide customers with 911 access to emergency services.
(b) “Government entity” means every local government, including a city, county, city and county, a transit, joint powers, special, or other district, the state, and every agency, department, commission, board, bureau, or other political subdivision of the state, or any authorized agent thereof.
(c) “Interrupt communication service” means to knowingly or intentionally suspend, disconnect, interrupt, or disrupt a communication service to one or more particular customers or all customers in a geographical area.
(d) “Judicial officer” means a magistrate, judge, commissioner, referee, or any person appointed by a court to serve in one of these capacities, of a superior court.
(e) “Service provider” means a person or entity, including a government entity, that offers a communication service.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Stats. 2017, Ch. 322, Sec. 1. (AB 1034) Effective January 1, 2018.
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