[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors
of the Township of Maidencreek as indicated in article histories.
Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 3-14-1989 by Ord. No. 112]
It shall be unlawful for any persons to knowingly
start or spread any false alarm of fire, riot, explosion, civil disturbance
or other breach of the peace in the Township of Maidencreek.
It shall be unlawful for any persons to report
the existence of a fire or other emergency to the Township Police,
or any Township volunteer fire department, or any other agency, public
or private, empowered to deal with an emergency when such person knows
the report to be false.
It shall be unlawful for any persons to report
or caused to be reported to the Police Department any information
concerning the commission of any offense or other incident which would
require police action, when: he knows that no such offense or other
incident has occurred; or he knows the information is false, or that
he has no such information.
It shall be unlawful for any persons to knowingly
give false information to the effect that a bomb will be exploded
or that any other serious hazard exists in any public conveyance,
church, school, theater, auditorium, assembly hall, factory warehouse,
industrial, commercial, or residential buildings, or any other place
used for public gatherings.
Any person, firm or corporation having a burglar,
holdup, fire, or any type of intrusion alarm, shall be given a warning
for the first false alarm responded to by the Police Department within
a calendar year, that thereafter a fee of $50 shall be charged for
each false alarm so responded to within that same calendar year.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or
corporation to use or cause to be used any telephone or electronic
device or attachment that automatically selects a public primary telephone
trunk line of the Police Department or volunteer fire department,
or emergency dispatcher which then produces any prerecorded message
to report a burglary, fire or other emergency.
