2017 New York Laws
PEN - Penal
Part 4 - Administrative Provisions
Title Y-1 - Enacted Without Title Heading.
Article 490 - Terrorism
490.20 - Making a Terroristic Threat.

Universal Citation: NY Penal L § 490.20 (2017)
490.20 Making a terroristic threat.

1. A person is guilty of making a terroristic threat when with intent to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, influence the policy of a unit of government by intimidation or coercion, or affect the conduct of a unit of government by murder, assassination or kidnapping, he or she threatens to commit or cause to be committed a specified offense and thereby causes a reasonable expectation or fear of the imminent commission of such offense.

2. It shall be no defense to a prosecution pursuant to this section that the defendant did not have the intent or capability of committing the specified offense or that the threat was not made to a person who was a subject thereof.

Making a terroristic threat is a class D felony.


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