HRS §275-6
Emergency calls on shared phone lines
This law makes it a crime to refuse to give up a shared phone line when someone needs it for an emergency call to fire, police, or medical help. It also makes it a crime to lie to get the line for an emergency when there is no real emergency.
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The statute, as written — Party line; refusal to yield in emergency
Any person who wilfully refuses to immediately relinquish a party line when informed that the line is needed for an emergency call to a fire department or police department or for medical aid or ambulance service, or any person who secures the use of a party line by falsely stating that the line is needed for an emergency call, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
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