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Show False Information can result in fine The writing staff of the Vernal Express was a little lit-tle red faced following the June 21 publication, to find that the wedding of "Mythical' persons including in-cluding picture was printed. What may seem like a "good joke" can sometimes backfire with the guilty person being charged with a misdemeanor, misde-meanor, per Utah Code Annotated 76-40-ll:(conveying false information to radio stations, television stations, sta-tions, newspapers and periodicals). Any person who wilfully wilful-ly states, conveys, delivers or transmits, by any means whatsoever, to the manager, editor, publisher, reporter, or agent, of any radio station, sta-tion, television station, newspaper, magazine, periodical or serial for publication therein, any false or libelous statement state-ment concerning any person, per-son, and thereby secures actual publication of the same, is guilty of a misdemeanor. |