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Alaska Statutes For Your Information

Warning Sec. 42.20.030. Civil liability for taking utility service and for damages to and or interfer ence with a utility line. (a) A person is civilly liable to the utility whose property is damaged in a sum equal to three times the amount of the actual damages sustained and three times the value of the service taken if the person intentionally or in the exercise of gross negligence (1) damages a pole, tree, pipeline, or other object used in a utility line; (2) damages an insulator in use in the line or damages or removes from its insulator any wire used in a utility line; (3) damages the insulation of the line or interrupts the transmission of the service through it or damages the protective wrapping of a water, oil, or gas pipeline; (4) damages property or materials belong ing to a utility; (5) interferes with the use of a utility line, or obstructs or postpones the transmission of service over a utility line; (6) procures or advises damage to any utility line; (7) interferes with or alters a meter or other device for the measuring of service from a utility; or (8) without the permission of the utility takes service from the utility or taps a wire or line used for the transmission of service or procures or advises this be done. (b) A person is civilly liable to the utility whose property is negligently damaged under (a) (1), (2), (3), (4), or (5) of this section in a sum equal to the amount of the damages sus tained. (§ 49-5-12 ACLA 1949; am § 1 ch 39 SLA 1964, am §§ 1,2 ch 68 SLA 1980). Sec. 11.61.120 Harassment. (a) A person commits the crime of harassment if, with intent to harass or annoy another person, that person (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 extremely inconvenient hours;

(4) makes an anonymous or obscene tele phone call or a telephone call that threat ens physical injury; (5) subjects another person to offensive physical contact; or (6) violates a provision of an order issued under AS 25.35.010. (b) or 25.35.020 restraining the respondent from com municating directly or indirectly with the petitioner. (b) Harassment is a class B misdemeanor. (§ 7 ch 166 SLA 1978; am § 10 ch 61 SLA 1982) Sec. 42.20.310. Eavesdropping. A person may not (1) use an eavesdropping device to hear or record all or any part of an oral conver sation without the consent of a party to the conversation; (2) use or divulge any information which the person knows or reasonably should know was obtained through the illegal use of an eavesdropping device for per sonal benefit or another’s benefit; (3) publish the existence, contents, sub stance, purport, effect or meaning of any conversation the person has heard through the illegal use of an eavesdrop ping device; (4) divulge, or publish the existence, con tents, substance, purport, effect or meaning of any conversation the per son has become acquainted with after the person knows or reasonably should know that the conversation and the information contained in the conversa tion was obtained through the illegal use of an eavesdropping device. (c) In this section “eavesdropping device” means any device capable of being used to hear or record oral conversation whether the conversation is conducted in person, by telephone, or by any other means; provided that this definition does not include devices used for the restoration of the deaf or hard of-hearing to normal or partial hearing. (§ 1 ch 133 SLA 1966). Revisor’s Notes -Subsection (a) was formerly AS 11.60.290. Renumbered in 1980 and des ignated as (a) in 1989. Subsection (b) was formerly AS 11.60.320. Renumbered as AS 42.20.340 in 1980. Renumbered again in 1989.

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