(a) No person shall telephone or maliciously use any service provided by a communications provider with intent to terrorize, frighten, intimidate, threaten, harass, molest or annoy any other person, or to disturb the peace and quiet of any other person, by any of the following:
(1) Threatening physical harm or damage to any person or property in the course of a telephone conversation.
(2) Falsely and deliberately reporting by telephone or other common communications carrier that any person has been injured, has suddenly taken ill, has suffered death or has been the victim of a crime or an accident.
(3) Deliberately refusing or failing to disengage a connection between a telephone and another telephone or between a telephone and other equipment provided for the transmission of messages by telephone, thereby interfering with any communications service.
(4) Using any vulgar, indecent, obscene or offensive language, or suggesting any lewd or lascivious act, in the course of a telephone conversation.
(5) Repeatedly initiating a telephone call and, without speaking, deliberately hanging up or breaking the telephone connection as or after the telephone call is answered.
(6) Making an unsolicited commercial telephone call which is received between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m. of the following day. For the purpose of this paragraph, an "unsolicited commercial telephone call" means a call made by a person or recording device, on behalf of a person, corporation or other entity, soliciting business or contributions.
(7) Deliberately calling a telephone of another person in a repetitive manner which causes interruption in telephone service or prevents the person from utilizing his or her telephone service.
(b) A person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than ninety days or a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), or both.
(Ord. 12-96. Passed 11-5-96.)