§37-8-213. Failure to relinquish party line for emergency call; falsely requesting party line for emergency; notice in directories.

(a) Any person who fails to relinquish a telephone party line, consisting of a subscriber line telephone circuit with two or more main telephone stations connected therewith, each having a distinctive ring or telephone number, after he has been requested to do so to permit another to place a call in an emergency in which property or human life are in jeopardy and the prompt summoning of aid is essential, to a fire or police department or for medical aid or ambulance service, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, provided such party line, at the time of the request, is not being used for any such other emergency call. Any person who shall request the use of such party line by falsely stating that the same is needed for any of said purposes, knowing said statement to be false, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

(b) In every telephone directory distributed to the general public in this state in which is listed the call numbers of any telephones located within this state, except such as are distributed solely for business-advertising purposes, commonly known as classified telephone directories, there shall be printed in type not smaller than the smallest type appearing on the same page a notice setting forth the substance of the first subsection of this section, preceded by the word "warning" printed in bold face type.

(Acts 1961, Ex. Sess., No. 71, p. 1946.)