 
                       PART II--CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
          CHAPTER 206--PEN REGISTERS AND TRAP AND TRACE DEVICES
 
Sec. 3127. Definitions for chapter

    As used in this chapter--
        (1) the terms ``wire communication'', ``electronic 
    communication'', and ``electronic communication service'' have the 
    meanings set forth for such terms in section 2510 of this title;
        (2) the term ``court of competent jurisdiction'' means--
            (A) a district court of the United States (including a 
        magistrate judge of such a court) or a United States Court of 
        Appeals; or
            (B) a court of general criminal jurisdiction of a State 
        authorized by the law of that State to enter orders authorizing 
        the use of a pen register or a trap and trace device;

        (3) the term ``pen register'' means a device which records or 
    decodes electronic or other impulses which identify the numbers 
    dialed or otherwise transmitted on the telephone line to which such 
    device is attached, but such term does not include any device used 
    by a provider or customer of a wire or electronic communication 
    service for billing, or recording as an incident to billing, for 
    communications services provided by such provider or any device used 
    by a provider or customer of a wire communication service for cost 
    accounting or other like purposes in the ordinary course of its 
    business;
        (4) the term ``trap and trace device'' means a device which 
    captures the incoming electronic or other impulses which identify 
    the originating number of an instrument or device from which a wire 
    or electronic communication was transmitted;
        (5) the term ``attorney for the Government'' has the meaning 
    given such term for the purposes of the Federal Rules of Criminal 
    Procedure; and
        (6) the term ``State'' means a State, the District of Columbia, 
    Puerto Rico, and any other possession or territory of the United 
    States.

(Added Pub. L. 99-508, title III, Sec. 301(a), Oct. 21, 1986, 100 Stat. 
1871, Sec. 3126; renumbered Sec. 3127, Pub. L. 100-690, title VII, 
Sec. 7092(a)(1), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4410; amended Pub. L. 101-650, 
title III, Sec. 321, Dec. 1, 1990, 104 Stat. 5117.)

                       References in Text

    The Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, referred to in par. (5), 
are set out in the Appendix to this title.


                               Amendments

    1988--Pub. L. 100-690 renumbered section 3126 of this title as this 
section.

                         Change of Name

    Words ``magistrate judge'' substituted for ``magistrate'' in par. 
(2)(A) pursuant to section 321 of Pub. L. 101-650, set out as a note 
under section 631 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 2703 of this title; title 47 
section 1002; title 50 section 1841.
