HARASSMENT.
A person commits an offense if, with intent to harass, annoy, alarm, abuse, torment, or embarrass another, the person:
– initiates communication and in the course of the communication makes a comment, request, suggestion, or proposal that is obscene;
– threatens, in a manner reasonably likely to alarm the person receiving the threat, to inflict bodily injury on the person or to commit a felony against the person, a member of the person’s family or household, or the person’s property;
– conveys, in a manner reasonably likely to alarm the person receiving the report, a false report, which is known by the conveyor to be false, that another person has suffered death or serious bodily injury;
– causes the telephone of another to ring repeatedly or makes repeated telephone communications anonymously or in a manner reasonably likely to harass, annoy, alarm, abuse, torment, embarrass, or offend another;
– makes a telephone call and intentionally fails to hang up or disengage the connection;
– knowingly permits a telephone under the person’s control to be used by another to commit an offense under this section;
– sends repeated electronic communications in a manner reasonably likely to harass, annoy, alarm, abuse, torment, embarrass, or offend another; or
– publishes on an Internet website, including a social media platform, repeated electronic communications in a manner reasonably likely to cause emotional distress, abuse, or torment to another person, unless the communications are made in connection with a matter of public concern.
Definition: ) “Electronic communication” means a transfer of signs, signals, writing, images, sounds, data, or intelligence of any nature transmitted in whole or in part by a wire, radio, electromagnetic, photoelectronic, or photo-optical system. The term includes:
– a communication initiated through the use of electronic mail, instant message, network call, a cellular or other type of telephone, a computer, a camera, text message, a social media platform or application, an Internet website, any other Internet-based communication tool, or facsimile machine; and a communication made to a pager.
“Obscene” means containing a patently offensive description of or a solicitation to commit an ultimate sex act, including sexual intercourse, masturbation, cunnilingus, fellatio, or anilingus, or a description of an excretory function.
An offense is a Class B misdemeanor, except that the offense is a Class A misdemeanor if:
– the actor has previously been convicted;
– the offense was committed under Subsection (a)(7) or (8) and:
– the offense was committed against a child under 18 years of age with the intent that the child:
– commit suicide; or
– engage in conduct causing serious bodily injury to the child; or
– the actor has previously violated a temporary restraining order or injunction
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