2015 Missouri Revised Statutes
TITLE XXXVIII CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT; PEACE OFFICERS AND PUBLIC DEFENDERS (556-600)
Chapter 574 Offenses Against Public Order
Section 574.120 Beginning January 1, 2017--Making a terrorist threat, second degree--penalty.

MO Rev Stat § 574.120 (2015) What's This?

574.120. 1. A person commits the offense of making a terrorist threat in the second degree if he or she recklessly disregards the risk of causing the evacuation, quarantine or closure of any portion of a building, inhabitable structure, place of assembly or facility of transportation and knowingly:

(1) Communicates an express or implied threat to cause an incident or condition involving danger to life; or

(2) Communicates a false report of an incident or condition involving danger to life; or

(3) Causes a false belief or fear that an incident has occurred or that a condition exists involving danger to life.

2. The offense of making a terrorist threat in the second degree is a class E felony.

3. No offense is committed under this section by a person acting in good faith with the purpose to prevent harm.

(L. 2014 S.B. 491)

Effective 1-01-17

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