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Va. Code § 18.2-428: Giving certain false information to another by telephone

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  1. Title 18.2. CRIMES AND OFFENSES GENERALLY
  2. Chapter 9. CRIMES AGAINST PEACE AND ORDER
  3. Article 6. UNLAWFUL USE OF TELEPHONES

If any person maliciously advises or informs another over any telephone in this Commonwealth of the death of, accident to, injury to, illness of, or disappearance of some third party, knowing the same to be false, he shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.Code 1950, § 18.1-238.1; 1962, c. 225; 1975, cc. 14, 15.

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