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Code of Virginia · § 18.2-428 — Giving certain false information to another by telephone

18.2-428. Giving certain false information to another by telephone

If any person maliciously advises or informs another over any telephone in this Commonwealth of the death of, accident to, injury to, illness of, or disappearance of some third party, knowing the same to be false, he shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

History and annotations

Code 1950, § 18.1-238.1; 1962, c. 225; 1975, cc. 14, 15.

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