Section 574.125

Title XXXVIII CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT; PEACE OFFICERS AND PUBLIC DEFENDERS

Chapter 574

Effective - 01 Jan 2017, see footnote   

  574.125.  Making a terrorist threat, third degree — penalty. — 1.  A person commits the offense of making a terrorist threat in the third degree if he or she, with criminal negligence with regard to the risk of causing the evacuation, quarantine or closure of any portion of a building, inhabitable structure, place of assembly or facility of transportation, knowingly:

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

  (2)  Communicates a knowingly 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 third degree is a class A misdemeanor.

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

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(L. 2014 S.B. 491)

Effective 1-01-17