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Alaska Statutes (Last Updated: January 11, 2017) |
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Title 42. PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS AND ENERGY PROGRAMS. |
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Chapter 42.20. TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE SYSTEMS AND CABLE LINES; EAVESDROPPING. |
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Article 42.20.03. OFFENSES RELATING TO TELEGRAPHS. |
Section 42.20.085. Priority of official communications; penalty for refusal, delay, or alteration of transmission.
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On application of an officer of the state in case of war, insurrection, riot, civil commotion, or resistance of public authority, for the prevention and punishment of crime, or for the arrest of persons suspected or charged with crime, a telegraph company shall give immediate dispatch to the communication of the officer at the price of ordinary communications of the same length. An officer, agent, operator, or employee of the company who refuses or wilfully omits to transmit the communication, or designedly alters it or falsifies it is, upon conviction, punishable by a fine of not more than $1000, or by imprisonment in jail for not more than one year, or by both.