HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2488        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1543

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to filing false emergency reports..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1.  Chapter 269 of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after section 13A the following section:—Section 13B. Whoever intentionally and knowingly makes or causes to be made a false report of any emergency situation to the police, or an enhanced 911 service or any other emergency service provider shall be punished by a fine of not less than $100.00 nor more than $500.00 or by imprisonment in a jail or house of correction for not more than one year or both.