Virginia legal term
Readily accessible to the general public in Virginia Criminal Law
Current through 2026 Virginia legislative session
In Virginia criminal law, “Readily accessible to the general public” is a term defined by statute rather than by its everyday meaning. Its statutory definition — quoted verbatim below — controls how the term is applied throughout the Virginia criminal code.
What does “Readily accessible to the general public” mean in Virginia criminal law?
"Readily accessible to the general public" means, with respect to a radio communication, that such communication is not (i) scrambled or encrypted; (ii) transmitted using modulation techniques whose essential parameters have been withheld from the public with the intention of preserving the privacy of such communication; (iii) carried on a subcarrier or other signal subsidiary to a radio transmission; (iv) transmitted over a communication system provided by a communications common carrier, unless the communication is a tone-only paging system communication; or (v) transmitted on frequencies al (Va. Code Ann. § 19.2-61)
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