New York Prosecutors Training Institute
NYPTI Law - NYS Statutes
ยง 240.78 Making a threat of mass harm.
1. A person is guilty of making a threat of mass harm when with the
intent to intimidate a group of people or to create public alarm, such
person threatens to inflict or cause to be inflicted, serious physical
injury or death at a school, place of worship, business, government
building, or other place of assembly, and thereby causes a reasonable
expectation or fear of serious physical injury or death, or causes the
evacuation or lockdown of a school, place of worship, business,
government building, or other place of assembly.
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 conduct threatened.
Making a threat of mass harm is a class B misdemeanor.
