Ky. Rev. Stat. § 508.075

Current through 2024 Ky. Acts ch. 225

Section 508.075 - Terroristic threatening in the first degree

(1) A person is guilty of terroristic threatening in the first degree when he or she:

(a) Intentionally makes false statements that he or she or another person has placed a weapon of mass destruction on:

1. The real property or any building of any public or private elementary or secondary school, vocational school, or institution of postsecondary education;

2. A school bus or other vehicle owned, operated, or leased by a school;

3. The real property or any building public or private that is the site of an official school-sanctioned function;

4. The real property or any building owned or leased by a government agency;

5. The real property or any building owned or leased by a domestic violence shelter as defined in KRS 511.085;

6. Any workplace; or

7. The real property or any building public or private that is the site of any gathering of three (3) or more persons; or

(b) Intentionally and without lawful authority, places a counterfeit weapon of mass destruction at any location or on any object specified in paragraph (a) of this subsection.

(2) A counterfeit weapon of mass destruction is placed with lawful authority if it is placed, with the written permission of the chief officer of the school or other institution, as a part of an official training exercise and is placed by a public servant, as defined in KRS 522.010.

(3) A person is not guilty of commission of an offense under this section if he or she, innocently and believing the information to be true, communicates a threat made by another person to school personnel, domestic violence shelter personnel, a peace officer, a law enforcement agency, a public agency involved in emergency response, or a public safety answering point and identifies the person from whom the threat was communicated, if known.

(4) Terroristic threatening in the first degree is a Class C felony.

KRS 508.075

Amended by 2024 Ky. Acts ch. 174,§ 34, eff. 7/15/2024.

Amended by 2022 Ky. Acts ch. 163,§ 1, eff. 7/13/2022.

Effective:6/21/2001
Created 2001, Ky. Acts ch. 113, sec. 1, effective6/21/2001.