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title: "18 U.S.C. § 2515"
description: "Prohibition of use as evidence of intercepted wire or oral communications"
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title_number: 18
title_name: "CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE"
chapter_number: "119"
chapter_name: "WIRE AND ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS INTERCEPTION AND INTERCEPTION OF ORAL COMMUNICATIONS"
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citation: "18 U.S.C. § 2515"
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# 18 U.S.C. § 2515 - Prohibition of use as evidence of intercepted wire or oral communications
## Text
Whenever any wire or oral communication has been intercepted, no part of the contents of such communication and no evidence derived therefrom may be received in evidence in any trial, hearing, or other proceeding in or before any court, grand jury, department, officer, agency, regulatory body, legislative committee, or other authority of the United States, a State, or a political subdivision thereof if the disclosure of that information would be in violation of this chapter.
(Added Pub. L. 90351, title III, § 802, June 19, 1968, 82 Stat. 216.)