PRINTER'S NO. 1146
No. 1000 Session of 1975
INTRODUCED BY REED, SCHWEDER, KOWALYSHYN, DiDONATO, BERLIN,
A. P. KELLY, PRATT, MILLIRON AND McLANE, APRIL 14, 1975
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LAW AND JUSTICE, APRIL 15, 1975
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, relating to false alarms to agencies
3 of public safety.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 4905 of Title 18, act of November 25,
7 1970 (P.L.707, No.230), known as the Pennsylvania Consolidated
8 Statutes, added December 6, 1972 (P.L.1482, No.334), is amended
9 to read:
10 § 4905. False alarms to agencies of public safety.
11 A person who knowingly causes a false alarm of fire or other
12 emergency to be transmitted to or within any organization,
13 official or volunteer, for dealing with emergencies involving
14 danger to life or property commits a misdemeanor of the first
15 degree. Such person commits a felony of the third degree
16 whenever a false alarm of fire transmitted by him results in an
17 accident, injury, damage, fatality, or loss, or whenever the
18 organization in the act of responding to the false alarm
1 receives a call to extinguish a fire at another location.
2 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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