As used in the protection from stalking act:
- (a) "Stalking" means an intentional harassment of another person that places the other person in reasonable fear for that person's safety.
- (b) "Harassment" means a knowing and intentional course of conduct directed at a specific person that seriously alarms, annoys, torments or terrorizes the person, and that serves no legitimate purpose.
- (c) "Course of conduct" means conduct consisting of two or more separate acts over a period of time, however short, evidencing a continuity of purpose which would cause a reasonable person to suffer substantial emotional distress. Constitutionally protected activity is not included within the meaning of "course of conduct."
L. 2002, ch. 141, § 2; July 1.