Bill Text: VA HB741 | 2010 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Telephone email or texting; use of indecent or threatening language, penalty.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-04-11 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0565) [HB741 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2010-HB741-Chaptered.html

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CHAPTER 565 An Act to amend and reenact §18.2-427 of the Code of Virginia, relating to use of profane, threatening, or indecent language using email or by texting; penalty. [H 741] Approved April 11, 2010

 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §18.2-427 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§18.2-427. Use of profane, threatening, or indecent language over public airways or by other methods.

If any person shall use Any person who uses obscene, vulgar, profane, lewd, lascivious, or indecent language, or make makes any suggestion or proposal of an obscene nature, or threaten threatens any illegal or immoral act with the intent to coerce, intimidate, or harass any person, over any telephone or citizens band radio, in this Commonwealth, he shall be is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

"Over any telephone" includes, for purposes of this section, any electronically transmitted message that is received or transmitted by telephone.