Section 1. Giving false fire alarm or injuring fire alarm apparatus
If any person, or persons, shall wilfully give, or cause to be given, any false alarm or fire, from a fire alarm telegraph box, or boxes, or shall break, or cause to be broken, any fire alarm signal box, or any pole, post, or wire, connected with the police and fire alarm telegraph, within the City of Philadelphia, or shall injure, or in any manner interfere with, or interrupt, the working of the same, he, she, or they, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine, not exceeding five hundred dollars, for each offense, or by imprisonment, for a term not exceeding two years, or by both. 1865, Feb. 28, P.L. 238, Sec. 1.