Sec. 28-22. Penalty.
Sec. 28-22. Penalty. Any person who, wilfully and without lawful authority, destroys or injures any device, wires or equipment used or maintained for transmitting or
signalling an air raid warning or alarm or makes connection with or in any way tampers
or interferes with the same, or any person who reports, transmits or circulates, or causes
to be reported, transmitted or circulated, a false alarm or warning of an air raid or of
any enemy action, knowing that the same is false, or any person who unlawfully poses
as or impersonates a police officer, air raid warden or other person engaged in civilian
preparedness emergency service, or who unlawfully and in violation of federal or state
regulations manufactures, sells, offers for sale, wears or uses the uniform, insignia or
identification, or any simulation thereof, of any such police officer, warden or other
person so engaged, or who wilfully impedes, interferes with or otherwise obstructs any
lawful civil preparedness activity or other preparedness function of the national or state
government or of the government of any political subdivision of the state, or who violates
any provision of this chapter, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or
imprisoned not more than five years or both.
(June, 1951, S. 1920d; P.A. 73-544, S. 19.)
History: P.A. 73-544 substituted "civil preparedness" for "civil defense" throughout.