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508.075 Terroristic threatening in the first degree.
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(2)
(3)
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A person is guilty of terroristic threatening in the first degree when he or she:
(a) Intentionally makes false statements that he or she or another person has
placed a weapon of mass destruction on:
1.
The real property or any building of any public or private elementary or
secondary school, vocational school, or institution of postsecondary
education;
2.
A school bus or other vehicle owned, operated, or leased by a school;
3.
The real property or any building public or private that is the site of an
official school-sanctioned function; or
4.
The real property or any building owned or leased by a government
agency; or
(b) Intentionally and without lawful authority, places a counterfeit weapon of
mass destruction at any location or on any object specified in paragraph (a) of
this subsection.
A counterfeit weapon of mass destruction is placed with lawful authority if it is
placed, with the written permission of the chief officer of the school or other
institution, as a part of an official training exercise and is placed by a public servant,
as defined in KRS 522.010.
A person is not guilty of commission of an offense under this section if he or she,
innocently and believing the information to be true, communicates a threat made by
another person to school personnel, a peace officer, a law enforcement agency, a
public agency involved in emergency response, or a public safety answering point
and identifies the person from whom the threat was communicated, if known.
Terroristic threatening in the first degree is a Class C felony.
Effective: June 21, 2001
History: Created 2001 Ky. Acts ch. 113, sec. 1, effective June 21, 2001.
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