Statute · New York Penal Law
N.Y. Penal Law § 240.78 — Making a threat of mass harm
N.Y. Penal Law § 240.78
- Type
- Statute
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- New York Penal Law
- Jurisdiction
- New York
- Current through
- Nov 5, 2026 (NY Senate Open Legislation)
§ 240.78 Making a threat of mass harm.
Citator
N.Y. Penal Law § 240.78 — Making a threat of mass harm is in force in the current edition of the Code, and nothing recorded condemns it.
§ 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.