30-35-1. [Failure to relinquish telephone party line for emergency
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It is unlawful for any person:
A. wilfully [willfully] to refuse to yield, or wilfully [willfully] to impede, the use of a telephone party line in time of emergency, by which he is not affected and of which he has been apprised, when he has been requested so to yield; or
B. to request another to yield the use of a telephone party line because of an emergency, which in fact does not exist.
History: 1953 Comp., § 40-37-6, enacted by Laws 1963, ch. 320, § 1.