45-8-114. Failure to yield party line. (1) Any person who fails to relinquish a telephone party line or public pay telephone after he has been requested to do so to permit another to place an emergency call to a fire department or police department or for medical aid or ambulance service shall be imprisoned for a term not to exceed 10 days or fined not to exceed $25, or both.
     (2) It is a defense to prosecution under subsection (1) that the accused did not know or did not have reason to know of the emergency in question or that the accused was himself using the telephone party line or public pay telephone for such an emergency call.
     (3) Any person who requests another to relinquish a telephone party line or public pay telephone on the pretext that he must place an emergency call, knowing such pretext to be false, shall be imprisoned for a term not to exceed 10 days or fined not to exceed $25, or both.
     (4) Every telephone company doing business in this state shall print a copy of subsections (1), (2), and (3) of this section in each telephone directory published by it after January 1, 1974.

     History: En. 94-8-109 by Sec. 1, Ch. 513, L. 1973; R.C.M. 1947, 94-8-109.