As used in this section, "harass" means to engage in intentional conduct in a manner that which:
(1) the actor knows or has reason to know would cause a reasonable person under the circumstances to feel frightened, threatened, oppressed, persecuted, or intimidated; and
(2) causes this reaction on the part of the victim.
In a prosecution under this section, the state is not required to prove that the actor intended to cause the victim to feel frightened, threatened, oppressed, persecuted, or intimidated, or except as otherwise provided in subdivision 3, clause (4), that the actor intended to cause any other result.
(a) A person who harasses another by committing any of the following acts is guilty of a gross misdemeanor:
(1) directly or indirectly manifests a purpose or intent to injure the person, property, or rights of another by the commission of an unlawful act;
(2) stalks, follows, or pursues another;
(3) returns to the property of another if the actor is without claim of right to the property or consent of one with authority to consent;
(4) repeatedly makes telephone calls, or induces a victim to make telephone calls to the actor, whether or not conversation ensues;
(5) makes or causes the telephone of another repeatedly or continuously to ring;
(6) repeatedly uses the mail, mails or delivers or causes the delivery of letters, telegrams, messages, packages, or other objects; or
(7) engages in any other harassing conduct that interferes with another person or intrudes on the person's privacy or liberty.
(b) The conduct described in paragraph (a), clauses (4) and (5), may be prosecuted either at the place where the any call is either made or where it is received. The conduct described in paragraph (a), clause (6), may be prosecuted either where the mail is deposited or where it is any letter, telegram, message, package, or other object is either sent or received.
(a) A person who engages in a pattern of harassing conduct with respect to a single victim or one or more members of a single household in a manner that which the actor knows or has reason to know would cause a reasonable person under the circumstances to feel terrorized or to fear bodily harm and that which does cause this reaction on the part of the victim, is guilty of a felony and may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than ten years or to payment of a fine of not more than $20,000, or both.
(b) For purposes of this subdivision, a "pattern of harassing conduct" means two or more acts within a five-year period that violate the provisions of any of the following:
(1) this section;
(2) section 609.713;
(3) section 609.224;
(4) section 609.2242;
(5) section 518B.01, subdivision 14;
(6) section 609.748, subdivision 6;
(7) section 609.605, subdivision 1, paragraph (b), clauses (3), (4), and (7);
(8) section 609.79;
(9) section 609.795;
(10) section 609.582; or
(11) section 609.595; or
(12) section 609.765.
(c) When acts constituting a violation of this subdivision are committed in two or more counties, the accused may be prosecuted in any county in which one of the acts was committed for all acts constituting the pattern.
Subd. 6
Subd. 7
Current through 1997.