636.13   PARTY LINES TO BE YIELDED IN EMERGENCIES. 
   (a)   No person shall willfully refuse immediately to yield or relinquish the use of a party line to another person for the purpose of permitting such other person to report a fire or summon law enforcement agencies, ambulance service, medical or other aid in case of emergency.
   (b)   No person shall ask for or request the use of a party line on the pretext that an emergency exists, knowing that no emergency exists.
   (c)   As used in this section:
      (1)   “Party line” means a subscriber’s line telephone circuit to which two or more main telephone stations are connected, each station having a distinctive ring or telephone number.
      (2)   “Emergency” means a situation in which property or human life is in jeopardy and in which prompt summoning of aid is essential.
   (d)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.
(Ord. 276-99. Passed 9-7-99.)