§ 11-44-21 - Vandalizing alarms or call boxes – False alarms.
SECTION 11-44-21
§ 11-44-21 Vandalizing alarms or callboxes – False alarms. – Whoever opens a signal box connected with a police, fire, or motorist aid callsystem for the purpose of giving or causing to be given a false alarm, orinterferes in any way with a signal box by breaking, cutting, injuring, ordefacing it; or, without authority, opens, tampers, or meddles with a signalbox, or with any part or parts of it, or with the police signal wires, or withanything connected with it, or, with that purpose, willfully or knowinglytampers or meddles with a signal box connected with a fire signal system orwith any part or thing connected with it, or, with that purpose, willfully orknowingly tampers or meddles with a motorist aid call box, or by any meansgives or aids or abets in the giving of a false alarm of fire or emergency orfalsely summons an ambulance or rescue apparatus, shall be subject topunishment by imprisonment for up to one year, or fined not more than fivehundred dollars ($500), or both. Upon conviction for any offense referred to inthis section, the court shall, in addition to imposing a fine and/orimprisonment, order the offender to make restitution to the appropriate state,city, or town authority or agency for any expenditures necessitated by thecommission of the offense.