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Alaska Statutes

SEC. 11.61.120. HARASSMENT. (A) A person commits the crime of harassment if, with intent to harass or annoy another person, he; (1) Insults, taunts, or challenges another person in a manner likely to provoke an immediate violent response; (2) Telephones another and fails to terminate the connection with intent to impair the ability of that person to place or receive telephone calls; (3) Makes repeated telephone calls at extreme- ly inconvenient hours; (4) Makes an anonymous or obscene telephone call or a telephone call that threatens physi- cal injury; or (5) Subjects another person to offensive physi- cal contact. (B) Harassment is a Class B misdemeanor. SEC. 11.46.200. THEFT OF SERVICE. (A) A person commits theft of services if; (1) He obtains services, known by him to be available only for compensation, by decep- tion, force, threat, or other means to avoid payment for the services; or (2) Having control over the disposition of services of others to which he is not entitled, he knowingly diverts those services to his own benefit or to the benefit of another not entitled to them. (B) Absconding without paying for hotel, restau- rant, or other services for which compensa- tion is customarily paid immediately upon the receiving of them is Prima Facie evidence that the services were obtained by deception.

SEC. 11.46.285. FRAUDULENT USE OF A CREDIT CARD.

(A) A person commits the crime of fraudulent use of a credit card if, with intent to defraud, he uses a credit card to obtain property or services with knowledge that; (1) The card is stolen or forged; (2) The card is expired or has been revoked or canceled; or (3) For any other reason his use of the card is unauthorized by either the issuer or the person to whom the credit card is issued. (B) Fraudulent use of a credit card is: (1) A Class C felony if the value of the property or services obtained is $500 or more; (2) A Class A misdemeanor if the value of the property or services obtained is $50 or more but less than $500; (3) A Class B misdemeanor if the value of the property or services obtained is less than $50.

Warning SEC. 11.45.035. ILLEGAL USE OF TELEPHONES. A person who anonymously telephones another person repeatedly for the purpose of annoying, molesting, abusing, through vile and obscene language, or harassing that person or his family, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction is punishable by imprisonment in jail for not less than three months, nor more than one year, or by a fine of not less than $1,000, or both. Alaska State Law makes it a punishable misdemeanor to willfully refuse to yield or surrender the use of a tele- phone party line to another person to enable such other person to report a fire or summon police, medical or other aid in case of emergency. The law also makes it a punishable misdemeanor to request the use of party line on the pretext that an emergency exists, when the person requesting such use knows that no emergency exists. An “emergency” is defined as “a situation in which property or human life is in jeopardy and the prompt summoning of aid is essential.”

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