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2010 Code of Virginia
Title 18.2 - CRIMES AND OFFENSES GENERALLY.
Chapter 9 - Crimes Against Peace and Order (18.2-404 thru 18.2-433.3)
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.
(Code 1950, § 18.1-238.1; 1962, c. 225; 1975, cc. 14, 15.)
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