Newark Municipal Code Ch. 9.12 Automatic Calling Devices

A. No person except a public utility engaged in the business of providing communications, services and facilities shall use or operate, attempt to use or operate or cause to be used or operated, or arrange, adjust, program or otherwise provide or install any device or combination of devices that will, upon activation, either mechanically, electronically or by other automatic means, initiate an intrastate call and deliver a recorded message to any telephone number used for the receipt of emergency or governmental administrative messages by the police department, the fire department or any administrative office or department of the city.

B. The term "telephone number" includes any additional numbers associated with such emergency or governmental administrative telephone number through the use of a rotary or other system whereby additional telephone calls to the number are connected to other numbers when the first number is in use.

(Ord. 132 § 1, 1972)

Any person, firm, corporation or organization violating any provision of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punishable by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. A person, firm, corporation or organization shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense for each day during any portion of which a violation of this ordinance is committed, continued, or permitted by the person, firm, corporation or organization and shall be punishable as herein provided.

(Ord. 132 § 2, 1972)