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(a) No person shall cause the evacuation of any public place, or otherwise cause serious public inconvenience or alarm, by doing any of the following:
(1) Initiating or circulating a report or warning of an alleged or impending fire, explosion, crime or other catastrophe, knowing that such report or warning is false;
(2) Threatening to commit any offense of violence;
(3) Committing any offense, with reckless disregard of the likelihood that its commission will cause serious public inconvenience or alarm.
(b) This section does not apply if:
(1) Physical harm is caused to any person; or
(2) The offense results in economic harm of five hundred dollars ($500.00) or more; or
(3) The public place involved is a school; or
(4) The violation pertains to a purported, threatened, or actual use of a weapon of mass destruction.
(c) Division (a) of this section does not apply to any person conducting an authorized fire or emergency drill.
(d) Whoever violates this section is guilty of inducing panic, a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(RC 2917.31; Ord. No. 1631-05. Passed 3-20-06, eff. 3-24-06)
(a) No person shall do any of the following:
(1) Initiate or circulate a report or warning of an alleged or impending fire, explosion, crime or other catastrophe, knowing that the report or warning is false and likely to cause public inconvenience or alarm;
(2) Knowingly cause a false alarm of fire or other emergency to be transmitted to or within any organization, public or private, for dealing with emergencies involving a risk of physical harm to persons or property;
(3) Report to any law enforcement agency an alleged offense or other incident within its concern, knowing that such offense did not occur;
(4) Report a medical emergency, injury or condition knowing that none exists.
(b) This section does not apply:
(1) To any person conducting an authorized fire or emergency drill; or
(2) If the violation results in economic harm of five hundred dollars ($500.00) or more; or
(3) If a violation of this section pertains to a purported, threatened or actual use of a weapon of mass destruction.
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of making false alarms, a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(RC 2917.32; Ord. No. 204-10. Passed 5-10-10, eff. 5-20-10)
(a) No person shall do any of the following:
(1) Initiate a call to 9-1-1 regarding an alleged or impending fire, explosion, crime, or other emergency, knowing that such report is false, and likely to cause inconvenience or alarm;
(2) Knowingly cause a false alarm of fire or other emergency to be transmitted to or within any safety service in the City of Cleveland, for dealing with emergencies involving a risk of physical harm to persons or property;
(3) Report to 9-1-1 that an alleged offense or other incident within the respective areas of concern for the safety divisions occurred, knowing that such offense did not occur;
(4) Knowingly use the 9-1-1 system, knowing that no major critical or life threatening emergency exists and knowing that such report is likely to result in unnecessary consumption of safety services; or
(b) This section does not apply:
(1) To any person conducting an authorized fire or emergency drill; or
(2) If the violation results in economic harm of five hundred dollars ($500.00) or more; or
(3) If a violation of this section pertains to a purported, threatened or actual use of a weapon of mass destruction.
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of improper use of 9-1-1 telephone system, a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(Ord. No. 1631-05. Passed 3-20-06, eff. 3-24-06)
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