§ 750.539gExceptions

Sec. 539g.
     Sections 539a to 539f do not prohibit any of the following:
    (a) Eavesdropping or surveillance not otherwise prohibited by law by a peace officer of this
 state or of the federal government, or the officer's agent, while in the performance of the
 officer's duties.
    (b) Hearing a communication transmitted by common carrier facilities by an employee of a
 communications common carrier when acting in the course of his or her employment.
    (c) The recording by a public utility of telephone communications to it requesting service or
 registering a complaint by a customer, if a record of the communications is required for
 legitimate business purposes and the agents, servants, and employees of the public utility are
 aware of the practice or surveillance by an employee safeguarding property owned by, or in
 custody of, his or her employer on his or her employer's property.
    (d) The routine monitoring, including recording, by employees of the department of
 corrections of telephone communications on telephones available for use by prisoners in state
 correctional facilities, if the monitoring is conducted in the manner prescribed by section 70 of
 Act No. 232 of the Public Acts of 1953, being section 791.270 of the Michigan Compiled
 Laws, and rules promulgated under that section.