13-4801

13-4801. Definitions

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. "Acquire" means to electronically capture, record, reveal or otherwise access by
means of any instrument, device or equipment a cellular or wireless telephone's
electronic serial number or mobile identification number without the consent of the
communication service provider.

2. "Cellular telephone" means a communication device that contains an electronic
serial number and the operation of which depends on the transmission of that electronic
serial number together with the mobile identification number in the form of radio signals
through cell sites and mobile switching stations.

3. "Cloned cellular or wireless telephone" means a cellular or wireless telephone
in which the manufacturer's electronic serial number has been altered.

4. "Cloning paraphernalia" means the materials that are necessary to create a
cloned cellular or wireless telephone and includes scanners to intercept electronic
serial numbers, cellular telephones and mobile identification numbers, wireless
telephones, cables, chips, burners, software and the computers containing the software to
program a cloned cellular or wireless telephone's microchip with a false electronic
serial number and mobile identification number combination and lists of electronic serial
number and mobile identification number combinations.

5. "Communication service provider" has the same meaning prescribed in section
13-3001.

6. "Electronic serial number" means the unique numerical algorithm that the
manufacturer programs into the microchip of each wireless telephone.

7. "Mobile identification number" means the cellular or wireless telephone number
that the cellular or wireless telephone carrier assigns to the wireless telephone.

8. "Wireless telephone" means a communication device that transmits radio,
satellite or other mobile telephone communication.