[Students] Student Notice: False Alarm or Report

[A&M-Commerce Students]

ATTENTION STUDENTS!



It is a violation of Texas Penal Code 42.06 to make a false alarm or report to a public institution of higher education. A student accused of this crime may face charges up to a state jail felony and will be referred through the student judicial process. A full description of the code and subsequent penalty is provided below. Please help us keep our university safe and report any suspicious activities to the University Policy Department or to the Dean of Students Office.



Section 42.06 - False Alarm or Report



Sec. 42.06. FALSE ALARM OR REPORT. (a) A person commits an offense if he knowingly initiates, communicates or circulates a report of a present, past, or future bombing, fire, offense, or other emergency that he knows is false or baseless and that would ordinarily:

(1)                 cause .action by an official or volunteer agency organized to deal with emergencies;

(2)             place a person in fear of imminent serious bodily injury; or

(3)                  prevent or interrupt the occupation of a building, room, place of assembly, place to which the public has access, or aircraft,  automobile,  or other mode of conveyance.

(4)  An  offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor unless the false report is of an emergency involving a public primary or secondary school, public communications, public transportation, public water, gas, or power supply or other public service, in which event the offense is a state jail felony.





Judy Sackfield

Vice President for Student Success

& Dean of Students

Campus Life & Student Success

McDowell Administration Building Rm 296

P.O. Box 3011

Commerce, Texas  75429

903-886-5171



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