1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to crimes; prohibiting interfering with 
  1.3             emergency communications; prescribing penalties; 
  1.4             proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, 
  1.5             chapter 609. 
  1.6   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.7      Section 1.  [609.776] [INTERFERENCE WITH EMERGENCY 
  1.8   COMMUNICATIONS.] 
  1.9      Whoever, without prior authorization, broadcasts or 
  1.10  transmits on, interferes with, blocks, or cross-patches another 
  1.11  frequency onto a new law enforcement, firefighting, emergency 
  1.12  medical services, emergency radio frequency or channel, any 
  1.13  assigned or alternate emergency frequency or channel, or an 
  1.14  official cellular telephone communication of a law enforcement 
  1.15  agency, a fire department, or emergency medical services 
  1.16  provider, knowing, or having reason to know that the act creates 
  1.17  a risk of obstructing, preventing, or misdirecting official law 
  1.18  enforcement, firefighting, or emergency medical services 
  1.19  communications, is guilty of a felony and may be sentenced to 
  1.20  imprisonment for not more than five years, to payment of a 
  1.21  $10,000 fine, or both. 
  1.22     Sec. 2.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
  1.23     Section 1 is effective August 1, 2003, and applies to 
  1.24  crimes committed on or after that date.