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PEN - Penal
Part 4 - Administrative Provisions
Title Y-1 - Enacted Without Title Heading.
Article 490 - Terrorism
490.40 - Criminal Possession of a Chemical Weapon or Biological Weapon in the Second Degree.
Universal Citation: NY Penal L § 490.40 (2020)
§ 490.40 Criminal possession of a chemical weapon or biological weapon
in the second degree.
A person is guilty of criminal possession of a chemical weapon or
biological weapon in the second degree when he or she possesses any
chemical weapon or biological weapon with intent to use such weapon to:
1. (a) cause serious physical injury to, or the death of, another
person; and (b) (i) intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
(ii) influence the policy of a unit of government by intimidation or
coercion; or
(iii) affect the conduct of a unit of government by murder,
assassination, or kidnapping.
2. cause serious physical injury to, or the death of, more than two
persons.
Criminal possession of a chemical weapon or biological weapon in the
second degree is a class B felony.
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