1. (a) A person is guilty of falsely reporting an incident concerning serious physical injury or death when such person commits the crime of falsely reporting an incident in the second degree as provided in section 53a-180c and such false report is of the alleged occurrence or impending occurrence of the serious physical injury or death of another person.
2. (b) Falsely reporting an incident concerning serious physical injury or death is a class D felony.

(P.A. 97-147, S. 2; Nov. 15 Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-2, S. 4, 9.)

History: Nov. 15 Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-2 amended Subsec. (a) to replace “the crime of falsely reporting an incident as provided in section 53a-180” with “the crime of falsely reporting an incident in the second degree as provided in section 53a-180c” and make a technical change for purposes of gender neutrality, effective January 1, 2002.