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PEN - Penal
Part 4 - Administrative Provisions
Title Y-1 - Enacted Without Title Heading.
Article 490 - Terrorism
490.47 - Criminal Use of a Chemical Weapon or Biological Weapon in the Third Degree.
Universal Citation: NY Penal L § 490.47 (2020)
§ 490.47 Criminal use of a chemical weapon or biological weapon in thethird degree.
A person is guilty of criminal use of a chemical weapon or biological weapon in the third degree when, under circumstances evincing a depraved indifference to human life, he or she uses, deploys, releases, or causes to be used, deployed, or released any select chemical agent or select biological agent, and thereby creates a grave risk of death or serious physical injury to another person not a participant in the crime.
Criminal use of a chemical weapon or biological weapon in the third degree is a class B felony.
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