No person shall call the number 9-1-1 for the purpose of making a knowingly false alarm or complaint or reporting knowingly false information which could result in the dispatch of emergency services from any public agency as defined in Section 2 of this act. Nor shall any person call 9-1-1 for nonemergency or personal use. Any person violating the provisions of this section, upon conviction, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not to exceed Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) and by an assessment for the resulting costs of any dispatching of emergency personnel and equipment for each such offense.
Added by Laws 1986, c. 230, § 9, emerg. eff. June 10, 1986. Amended by Laws 1988, c. 130, § 6, emerg. eff. April 13, 1988; Laws 1990, c. 92, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1990; Laws 2000, c. 115, § 8, eff. Nov. 1, 2000; Laws 2016, c. 324, § 10, eff. Nov. 1, 2016. Renumbered from § 2819 of this title by Laws 2016, c. 324, § 13, eff. Nov. 1, 2016.