§ 14-286.2. Interfering with emergency communication.
§ 14‑286.2. Interferingwith emergency communication.
(a) Offense. A personwho intentionally interferes with an emergency communication, knowing that thecommunication is an emergency communication, and who is not making an emergencycommunication himself, is guilty of a Class A1 misdemeanor. In addition, aperson who interferes with a communications instrument or other emergencyequipment with the intent to prevent an emergency communication is guilty of aClass A1 misdemeanor.
(b) Repealed by SessionLaws 2001‑148, s. 1.
(b1) Definitions. Thefollowing definitions apply in this section:
(1) Emergencycommunication. The term includes communications to law enforcement agenciesor other emergency personnel, or other individuals, relating or intending torelate that an individual is or is reasonably believed to be, or reasonablybelieves himself or another person to be, in imminent danger of bodily injury,or that an individual reasonably believes that his property or the property ofanother is in imminent danger of substantial damage, injury, or theft.
(2) Intentionalinterference. The term includes forcefully removing a communicationsinstrument or other emergency equipment from the possession of another, hidinga communications instrument or other emergency equipment from another, orotherwise making a communications instrument or other emergency equipmentunavailable to another, disconnecting a communications instrument or otheremergency equipment, removing a communications instrument from its connectionto communications lines or wavelengths, damaging or otherwise interfering withcommunications equipment or connections between a communications instrument andcommunications lines or wavelengths, disabling a theft‑prevention alarmsystem, providing false information to cancel an earlier call or otherwisefalsely indicating that emergency assistance is no longer needed when it is,and any other type of interference that makes it difficult or impossible tomake an emergency communication or that conveys a false impression thatemergency assistance is unnecessary when it is needed. (1987, c. 690, s. 1; 1993, c.539, s. 184; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c); 2001‑148, s. 1.)