2019 US Virgin Islands Code
Title 14 - Crimes
Chapter 108 - Criminal Hoax
§ 2145. False reporting; third degree
- A person is guilty of falsely reporting an incident in the third degree when, knowing the information reported, conveyed or circulated to be false or baseless, he:
(a) initiates or circulates a false report or warning of an alleged occurrence or impending occurrence of a crime, catastrophe or emergency under circumstances in which it is not unlikely that public alarm or inconvenience will result; or
(b) reports, by word or action, to an official or quasi-official agency or organization having the function of dealing with emergencies involving danger to life or property, an alleged occurrence or impending occurrence of a catastrophe or emergency which did not in fact occur or does not, in fact, exist; or
(c) gratuitously reports to a law enforcement officer or agency (1) the alleged occurrence of an offense or incident which did not in fact occur; or (2) an allegedly impending occurrence of an offense or incident which in fact is not about to occur; or (3) false information relating to an actual offense or incident or to the alleged implication of some person therein.
