(a) No person, firm or corporation shall receive or assist in receiving any police or fire communication by wire or radio, installed in a motor vehicle, place of business or home, and use the same or any information therein contained for his own gain or benefit, directly or indirectly, or for the benefit or gain of another not entitled thereto, directly or indirectly; and no person having received such intercepted communication or having become acquainted with the contents, substance, purport, effect or meaning of the same or any part thereof, knowing that such information was so obtained, shall divulge or publish the existence, contents, substance, purport, effect or meaning of the same or any part thereof, or use the same or any information therein contained for his own benefit for gain, directly or indirectly, or for the benefit of another, not entitled thereto, directly or indirectly. This section shall not apply to the receiving, divulging, publishing or utilizing of the contents of any police or fire communication broadcasts by newspapers, radio, television or other public or semipublic news dissemination media for the use of the general public. Further, the provisions of this section shall not apply to public utilities.
(Ord. 19-52. Passed 6-27-52.)
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. Punishment shall be as provided in Section 698.02.