Sec. 1. 15 MRSA §709, sub-§2-A is enacted to read:

2-A. Emergency services provider.__"Emergency services provider" means a state, county or municipal government entity to the extent it provides fire, emergency medical or police services or related dispatch services.

Sec. 2. 15 MRSA §709, sub-§4, śC, as amended by PL 1979, c. 701, §11, is further amended to read:

C. A person given prior authority by the sender or receiver all parties to the communication.

Sec. 3. 15 MRSA §710, as amended by PL 1987, c. 680, §§2 to 4, is further amended to read:

§710. Offenses

1. Interception, oral communications prohibited. Any Except as provided in subsection 7, a person, other than an employee of a common carrier as defined in this chapter, a law enforcement officer or an investigative officer as defined in this chapter, carrying out practices otherwise permitted by this chapter, who intentionally or knowingly intercepts, attempts to intercept or procures any other person to intercept or attempt to intercept, any wire or oral communication or a person who is a sender or receiver of a telephony communication and who intentionally or knowingly records, attempts to record or procures another person to record or attempt to record that telephony communication without the consent of all parties to the communication is guilty of a Class C crime.

2. Editing of tape recordings in judicial proceedings prohibited. Any person who knowingly or intentionally edits, alters or tampers with any tape, transcription or other sound recording, or knows of such editing, altering or tampering, and presents that recording in any judicial proceeding or proceeding under oath, without fully indicating the nature of the changes made and the original state of the recording, is guilty of a Class C crime.

3. Disclosure, or use of wire or oral communications prohibited. A person is guilty of a Class C crime if he that person:

A. Intentionally or knowingly discloses or attempts to disclose to any person the contents of any wire or oral