(a) No person, unless duly authorized, shall open any signal box, except to give an alarm of fire or to communicate with the police on necessary business, nor break, cut, injure, deface, damage, derange, or in any manner meddle or interfere with any signal box or the fire alarm or police telegraph wires, or with any village electric wires, poles, conduits, or apparatus. Any person violating any of the provisions of this subsection shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) and not to exceed seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00) for each offense.
(b) (1) It shall be unlawful for any person to make any call to "911" or to permit any call to "911" when, at the time the call or transmission is made, there is no reasonable ground for making the call or transmission and the call or transmission results in the emergency response of any public safety agency.
(2) The fine for each act of making a false "911" call shall be a fine of not less than one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00) nor more than seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00).
(3) The person who is found guilty of making a false "911" call shall also be responsible for the costs incurred by the village police, fire, or public works department in responding to that false "911" call. The costs shall be calculated on the actual cost, including overtime, of the salaries of the police, fire and/or public works department employees, any outside automatic aid from other municipalities and the cost of the vehicles responding at a rate of sixty five dollars ($65.00) per hour for automobiles and one hundred twenty five dollars ($125.00) per hour for each vehicle whose weight is greater than four thousand (4,000) pounds.
(Code 1972, §§ 6-4-32, 6-4-35; Ord. 98-6, § 2, 2-9-1998; Ord. 98-12, § 2, 3-23-1998; Ord. 99-26, §§ 1-3, 8-9-1999)
1 720 ILCS 5/26-1(a)(2).