d.) SERVICE PROVIDERS- shall refer to both landline, mobile phone and hand-held operators, including all forms of telecommunications equipment; and e.) PERSON- shall refer to any individual who makes a call to any number designated as emergency hotline number.
Sec. 4. Prohibited Acts - It shall be prohibited for any person to: a.) Make a prank call/text message through any Service Provider to any emergency number; b.) Make a call/text message to said emergency numbers for the purpose of reporting a false emergency situation; c)To call/text an emergency number and leave said line hanging for the purpose of paralyzing the emergency line so called; d) Making lewd calls or sending lewd text messages to emergency numbers; and e) Calling/texting said emergency numbers to mock, ridicule, insult or otherwise hurl invectives at the phone operator, or otherwise, utter derogatory remarks against any individual other than said operator.
Sec. 5. Penalties. - Upon conviction the offender shall suffer the penalty of imprisonment, for a period not exceeding six (6) months or a fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred pesos (P2,500.00) or both at the discretion of the court.
Sec. 6. Effectivity - This ordinance shall take effect upon approval.
APPROVED.
I HEREBY CERTIFY to the correctness of the foregoing ordinance.
CLARISSA P. DIVINAGRACIA
Secretary to the Sangguniang Bayan
ATTESTED: HON. RECTO S. TOMAS, SR. Vice Mayor/Presiding Officer
APPROVED TITO G. RAZALAN Municipal Mayor
