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Harassment.
2C:33-4.
Harassment.
 Except as
provided in subsection e., a person commits a petty disorderly
persons offense if, with purpose to harass another, he:
a.Makes, or
causes to be made, a communication or communications anonymously or
at extremely inconvenient hours, or in offensively coarse language,
or any other manner likely to cause annoyance or alarm;
b.Subjects
another to striking, kicking, shoving, or other offensive touching,
or threatens to do so; or
c.Engages in any
other course of alarming conduct or of repeatedly committed acts
with purpose to alarm or seriously annoy such other person.
A communication
under subsection a. may be deemed to have been made either at the
place where it originated or at the place where it was received.
d.(Deleted by
amendment, P.L.2001, c.443).
e.A person
commits a crime of the fourth degree if, in committing an offense
under this section, he was serving a term of imprisonment or was on
parole or probation as the result of a conviction of any indictable
offense under the laws of this State, any other state or the United
States.
L.1978, c.95;
amended 1983, c.334; 1990, c.87, s.2; 1995, c.211, s.2; 1998, c.17,
s.4; 2001, c.443, s.3.
 Certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey
as a Criminal Trial Attorney
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