2022 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 53a - Penal Code
Chapter 952 - Penal Code: Offenses
Section 53a-180a. - Falsely reporting an incident resulting in serious physical injury or death: Class C or B felony.

(a) A person is guilty of falsely reporting an incident resulting in serious physical injury or death when such person commits the crime of (1) falsely reporting an incident in the first degree as provided in subdivision (1), (2) or (3) of subsection (a) of section 53a-180, (2) falsely reporting an incident in the second degree as provided in subdivision (1), (2) or (3) of subsection (a) of section 53a-180c, or (3) falsely reporting an incident in the first degree as provided in subdivision (4) of subsection (a) of section 53a-180 or falsely reporting an incident in the second degree as provided in subdivision (4) of subsection (a) of section 53a-180c, and such false report described in subdivision (1), (2) or (3) of this subsection results in the serious physical injury or death of another person.

(b) Falsely reporting an incident resulting in serious physical injury or death is a (1) class C felony for a violation of subdivision (1) or (2) of subsection (a) of this section, or (2) class B felony for a violation of subdivision (3) of subsection (a) of this section.

(P.A. 81-353, S. 2; P.A. 92-260, S. 67; Nov. 15 Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-2, S. 3, 9; July Sp. Sess. P.A. 20-1, S. 25.)

History: P.A. 92-260 amended Subsec. (b) to make technical changes in the name of the offense; Nov. 15 Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-2 amended Subsec. (a) to make a technical change for purposes of gender neutrality, replace reference to the crime of “falsely reporting an incident as provided in section 53a-180” with “falsely reporting an incident in the first degree as provided in section 53a-180” and add reference to the crime of “falsely reporting an incident in the second degree as provided in section 53a-180c” and amended Subsec. (b) to increase the penalty from a class D to a class C felony, effective January 1, 2002; July Sp. Sess. P.A. 20-1 amended Subsec. (a) by designating existing provision re falsely reporting an incident in the first degree as Subdiv. (1) and adding reference to Subsec. (a)(1), (a)(2) or (a)(3) of Sec. 53a-180, designating existing provision re falsely reporting an incident in the second degree as Subdiv. (2) and adding references to Subsec. (a)(1), (a)(2) or (a)(3) of Sec. 53a-180c, adding Subdiv. (3) re falsely reporting an incident in the first degree as provided in Sec. 53a-180(a)(4) or in the second degree as provided in Sec. 53a-180c(a)(4) and adding reference to Subdiv. (1), (2) or (3) and amended Subsec. (b) by designating existing provision re class C felony as Subdiv. (1), adding reference to violation of Subsec. (a)(1) or (a)(2) and adding Subdiv. (2) re class B felony for violation of Subsec. (a)(3).