---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 2713"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "2713"
heading: "Required preservation and disclosure of communications and records"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/2713"
units:
  - "Part I — Crimes"
  - "Chapter 121 — Stored Wire and Electronic Communications and Transactional Records Access"
---

# §2713. Required preservation and disclosure of communications and records


A provider of [electronic communication service](/usc/18/2510.md?p=15) or [remote computing service](/usc/18/2711.md?p=2) shall comply with the obligations of this chapter to preserve, backup, or disclose the contents of a wire or [electronic communication](/usc/18/2510.md?p=12) and any record or other information pertaining to a customer or subscriber within such provider’s possession, custody, or control, regardless of whether such communication, record, or other information is located within or outside of the [United States](/usc/18/229F.md?p=9).


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 115–141, div. V, § 103(a)(1), Mar. 23, 2018, 132 Stat. 1214.)