CODE OF VIRGINIA

GIVING CERTAIN FALSE INFORMATION TO ANOTHER BY TELEPHONE (§ 18.2-428)

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