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HOUSE BILL NO. 1984 Offered January 19, 1999 A BILL to amend and reenact § 18.2-461 of the Code of Virginia, relating to falsely summoning or giving false reports to law-enforcement officials; penalty. ---------- Patrons-- Kilgore and Phillips ---------- Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 18.2-461 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 18.2-461. Falsely summoning or giving false reports to law-enforcement officials.

It shall be unlawful for any person (i) to knowingly give a false report as to the commission of any crime to any law-enforcement official with intent to mislead, or (ii) without just cause and with intent to interfere with the operations of any law-enforcement official, to call or summon any law-enforcement official by telephone or other means, including engagement or activation of an automatic emergency alarm, or (iii) to knowingly give subsequent conflicting testimony under oath as to any material matter or thing. Violation of the provisions of this section shall be punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor.