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4873 — Puerto Rico Law | CourtGPT
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Puerto Rico Legal Code
Any person who knowingly calls or allows calls to be made from any telephone under his/her control to any emergency call response system, such as 9-1-1, to falsely warn or notify a fire alarm, medical emergency, commission of a crime, natural disaster or any other situation requiring the mobilization, dispatch or presence of the Firefighters Corps, Commonwealth Emergency Management and Disaster Administration, or law enforcement corps, including the Puerto Rico Police, or who makes or allows that obscene or prank calls are made to such emergency call response systems shall incur a misdemeanor.\nThe court may also impose restitution to compensate for any unnecessary use of resources or unnecessary disbursement of funds by the Commonwealth to respond to any obscene, prank or false alarm calls to such emergency response systems.\nHistory —June 18, 2004, No. 149, § 245, eff. May 1, 2005.

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