§710-1014  Rendering a false alarm. 
(1)  A person commits the offense of rendering a false alarm if the person
knowingly causes a false alarm of fire or other emergency to be transmitted to
or within an official or volunteer fire department, any other government
agency, or any public utility that deals with emergencies involving danger to
life or property.



(2)  Rendering a false alarm is a misdemeanor.
[L 1972, c 9, pt of §1; gen ch 1993]



 



COMMENTARY ON §710-1014



 



  The rendering of a false fire alarm is almost universally
made criminal.  The Code generalizes the principle to cover all emergency
alarms and all governmental emergency organizations (the police would be
included while responding to an alarm of this character), public utilities that
deal with emergencies, and, in the case of fire departments, volunteer
organizations.  The justification for the provision is the prevention of the
"waste of government resources and the likelihood that the actor will
cause personnel or equipment to be unavailable to deal with real
emergencies."[1]



 



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§710-1014 Commentary:



 



1.  M.P.C., Tentative Draft No. 6, comments at 144 (1957).