Section 705.00. Definitions  


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  • As  used  in  this  article,  the  following  terms have the following
      meanings:
        1. "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.
        2. "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.
        3. "Applicant"  means  a  district  attorney,  an  assistant  district
      attorney, and when empowered by law to conduct an investigation of or to
      prosecute  or  participate in the prosecution of a designated crime, the
      attorney general, an assistant attorney  general,  the  deputy  attorney
      general  in  charge  of  the statewide organized crime task force, or an
      assistant deputy attorney general of such task force.
        4. "Law enforcement agency" means any agency which is empowered by law
      to conduct an investigation or to make an arrest for a felony,  and  any
      agency  which  is  authorized  by law to prosecute or participate in the
      prosecution of a felony.
        5. "Designated crime" means any crime included within  the  definition
      of a "designated offense" in subdivision eight of section 700.05 of this
      chapter,  any  criminal  act  as  defined  in subdivision one of section
      460.10 of the penal law, bail jumping in the first and second degree  as
      defined  in  sections  215.57  and  215.56  of such law, or   aggravated
      harassment as defined in subdivisions one and two of section  240.30  of
      such law.
        6.  "Justice"  means justice as defined in subdivision four of section
      700.05 of this chapter.