§ 11-35-1. Consent of property owner required for electric lines — Tree-trimming — Removal on notice. No person shall place any electric wire, apparatus, pole, bracket, insulator, or other device or appliance for the purpose of conducting currents of electricity upon any private property without the consent of the owners or of the agent of […]
§ 11-35-10. Excessive gas or water charges — False meters. Every person or corporation who shall willfully collect of any person or persons a larger sum for gas or water than appears to be due on inspection of the meter put in to regulate and register it, or shall willfully furnish a meter that shall […]
§ 11-35-11 — 11-35-13. Repealed.
§ 11-35-14. Refusal to relinquish or to damage or to obstruct telephone. (a) Any person who willfully refuses to relinquish a party line or who obstructs or damages an individual telephone line or telephone set when he or she knows or should have known that the party line, individual telephone line or telephone set is […]
§ 11-35-15. Notice on telephone book. A copy of § 11-35-14, preceded by the word “Warning” in large type, shall be printed in a prominent place in every telephone directory distributed to the members of the general public in this state or in any portion of it after June 1, 1958, which lists the calling […]
§ 11-35-16. Wrongfully obtaining telecommunication service. (a) Any person who, with intent to injure or defraud any person, persons, association, or corporation furnishing telecommunications service of the whole or any part of the lawful charge for any service, obtains, attempts to obtain, or aids or abets another in obtaining any telecommunications service by any false […]
§ 11-35-17. Crank or obscene telephone calls. (a) Whoever shall originate a transmission by facsimile machine, or other telecommunication device or shall telephone any person repeatedly or cause any person to be telephoned repeatedly for the sole purpose of harassing, annoying, or molesting the other person or his or her family, whether or not conversation […]
§ 11-35-18. Bomb threats and similar false reports. Whoever, knowing the report to be false, transmits or causes to be transmitted to any person by telephone or other means a communication falsely reporting the location of any explosive or other dangerous substance or contrivance, causing anxiety, unrest, fear, or personal discomfort by that false report […]
§ 11-35-19. Prosecution for violations of §§ 11-35-17, 11-35-18. The crimes described in §§ 11-35-17 and 11-35-18 may be prosecuted and punished in the territorial jurisdiction in which the communication originates or is received. History of Section.P.L. 1965, ch. 195, § 1.
§ 11-35-2. Badges of telegraph and telephone workers. No person shall labor upon the work of erecting or repairing any telegraph or telephone line belonging to any telegraph or telephone company without having conspicuously attached to his or her dress a medal or badge, on which shall be legibly inscribed the name of the owners […]
§ 11-35-20. Termination of service. Every person or corporation who shall willfully for non-payment of charges cut off, discontinue, or otherwise terminate gas, electric, water, telephone, light, heat, or power service to any domestic or institutional user on either Friday, Saturday, or Sunday or at any time when the office of the person or corporation […]
§ 11-35-20.1. Wrongful termination or disruption of service. (a) Any person who has been served an order issued pursuant to chapter 8.1 of title 8, or chapters 5 or 15 of title 15 who causes the interruption of any utility service by false presentation or other means at the residence of the person(s) protected by […]
§ 11-35-21. Unauthorized interception, disclosure or use of wire, electronic, or oral communication. (a) Except as otherwise specifically provided in chapter 5.1 of title 12, any person: (1) who willfully intercepts, attempts to intercept, or procures any other person to intercept or attempt to intercept, any wire, electronic, or oral communication; (2) who willfully discloses […]
§ 11-35-22. Offenses in connection with authorized interception of communications. Except as otherwise specifically provided in chapter 5.1 of title 12, any person: (1) who willfully edits, alters, or tampers with any tape, transcription, or other sound recording, or knows of the editing, altering, or tampering, and presents the recording in any judicial proceeding or […]
§ 11-35-23. Failure to report to law enforcement officers. An employee of any communication common carrier who has knowledge obtained during the course of that employment of any violation of this chapter and willfully fails to report that knowledge within seven (7) days to the attorney general shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by […]
§ 11-35-24. Possession, sale, distribution, manufacture and advertising of intercepting device. (a) Any person who willfully and knowingly possesses, sells, distributes, manufactures, assembles, or places in any publication any advertisement of, an intercepting device, the design of which renders it primarily useful for the purpose of the surreptitious interception of a wire or oral communication […]
§ 11-35-25. Fraudulent communication devices. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to willfully make, manufacture, assemble, possess, possess with intent to sell, sell, give, or otherwise transfer to another, or offer or place in any newspaper, magazine, handbill, or other publication any advertisement to sell, give, or otherwise transfer to another or purchase […]
§ 11-35-26. Automatic telephone dialing systems failing to disconnect. (a) Any person who operates an automatic telephone dialing system in this state which fails within five (5) seconds after the called party hangs up to automatically create a disconnect signal or an on-hook condition which allows the called party’s line to be released shall be […]
§ 11-35-27. Repealed.
§ 11-35-28. Trespassing on utility right-of-way. Every person who, without right, knowingly makes attachments to, or disposes on, the facilities or the rights-of-way of any electric, gas, telephone, or water utility, shall be subject to a fine of not more than two hundred fifty dollars ($250) per incident, plus the cost of repair of the […]
