(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 no person shall use the same or any information therein contained for his or her own gain or benefit, directly or indirectly.
(B) 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 or her own benefit or gain, directly or indirectly, or for the benefit of another not entitled thereto, directly or indirectly.
(C) This section shall not apply to the receiving, divulging, publishing, or utilizing of the contents of any police or fire communication broadcast by newspapers, radio, television, or other public or semipublic news dissemination media for the use of the general public, provided, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to public utilities.
(1995 Code, § 74.56) Penalty, see § 70.99