CHAPTER 495

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered
18.1-288.2, providing a penalty for causing a telephone to ring with
intent to annoy and without intent to converse; requiring telephone
companies to identify the equipment so used and to furnish informa-
tion, and to provide for publication of the section in telephone
directories.

[H 457]

Approved March 31, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a section numbered
18.1-238.2 as follows:

§ 18.1-238.2. Any person who, without intent to converse but with
intent to annoy any other person, causes any telephone not of his own
to ring shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Any person who permits or con-
dones the use of any telephone under his control for such purpose also
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Every such company shall print this
section in its telephone directories hereafter issued.