§13-176.4.

§13-176.4.
   
   It is not unlawful pursuant to the Security of Communications Act for:
   
   1. an operator of a switchboard, or an officer, employee, or agent of
   any communication common carrier whose facilities are used in the
   transmission of a wire, oral or electronic communication to intercept,
   disclose, or use that communication in the normal course of his
   employment while engaged in any activity which is a necessary incident
   to the rendition of his service or to the protection of the rights or
   property of the carrier of such communication. Said communication
   common carriers shall not utilize service observing or random
   monitoring except for mechanical or service quality control checks; or
   
   2. an officer, employee, or agent of any communication common carrier
   or other person authorized to provide information, facilities, or
   technical assistance to a law enforcement officer who is authorized to
   intercept a wire, oral or electronic communication; or
   
   3. an officer, employee, or agent of the Federal Communications
   Commission, in the normal course of his employment and in discharge of
   the monitoring responsibilities exercised by the Commission in the
   enforcement of Chapter 5 of Title 47 of the United States Code, to
   intercept a wire, oral or electronic communication transmitted by
   radio or to disclose or use the information obtained; or
   
   4. a person acting under color of law to intercept a wire, oral or
   electronic communication when such person is a party to the
   communication or one of the parties to the communication has given
   prior consent to such interception; or
   
   5. a person not acting under color of law to intercept a wire, oral or
   electronic communication when such person is a party to the
   communication or when one of the parties to the communication has
   given prior consent to such interception unless the communication is
   intercepted for the purpose of committing any criminal act; or
   
   6. a communication common carrier or an officer, agent, or employee
   thereof, or a person under contract with a communication common
   carrier, in the normal course of the business of the communication
   common carrier bidding upon contracts with or in the course of doing
   business with the United States, a state, or a political subdivision
   thereof, in the normal course of the activities of said entities, to
   send through the mail, send or carry in interstate or foreign
   commerce, manufacture, assemble, possess, or sell any electronic,
   mechanical, or other device knowing or having reason to know that the
   design of such device renders the device primarily useful for the
   purpose of the illegal interception of wire, oral or electronic
   communications; or
   
   7. an officer or employee of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections to
   monitor any wire, oral or electronic communication where an
   incarcerated inmate is a party to that communication, if the inmate is
   given prior and conspicuous notice of the surveillance or monitoring.