Bill Text: MO HB68 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits a political subdivision from imposing a fine or penalty on the owner of a pay telephone on the owner's property for a call made to an emergency telephone service from the pay telephone
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2011-07-01 - Delivered to Secretary of State (G) [HB68 Detail]
Download: Missouri-2011-HB68-Introduced.html
FIRST REGULAR SESSION
96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE SCHARNHORST.
0463L.01I D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 190.308, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to misuse of emergency telephone service, with an existing penalty provision.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 190.308, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 190.308, to read as follows:
190.308. 1. In any county that has established an emergency telephone service pursuant to sections 190.300 to 190.320, it shall be unlawful for any person to misuse the emergency telephone service. For the purposes of this section, "emergency" means any incident involving danger to life or property that calls for an emergency response dispatch of police, fire, EMS or other public safety organization, "misuse the emergency telephone service", includes, but is not limited to, repeatedly calling the "911" for nonemergency situations causing operators or equipment to be in use when emergency situations may need such operators or equipment and "repeatedly" means three or more times within a one-month period.
2. Any violation of this section is a class B misdemeanor.
3. No political subdivision shall impose any fine or penalty on the owner of a pay telephone or on the owner of any property upon which a pay telephone is located for calls to the emergency telephone service made from the pay telephone. Any such fine or penalty is hereby void.
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