Creates a crime for making a false bomb threat in or upon a school; makes such crime a class A misdemeanor for the first offense and class E felony for multiple offenses.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10371
IN ASSEMBLY
March 19, 2010
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Introduced by M. of A. ALESSI -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to making a false bomb threat
in or upon a school
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 240.64 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 240.64 Making a false bomb threat in or upon a school.
4 1. A person is guilty of making a false bomb threat in or upon a
5 school when he or she communicates, or causes communication, to a
6 school, any threat, notice or information, which by its characteristics
7 appears to be a bomb threat, but is, in fact, a false bomb threat and
8 which he or she knows, intends or reasonably believes will appear to be
9 a bomb threat under circumstances in which it is likely to cause alarm
10 or inconvenience to the school. Making a false bomb threat in or upon a
11 school is a class A misdemeanor.
12 2. A person guilty of making a false bomb threat in or upon a school
13 and who has been previously convicted of a crime of making a false bomb
14 threat in or upon a school, as prescribed in subdivision one of this
15 section, is guilty of a class E felony.
16 3. For purposes of this section the term "school" shall include, any
17 public or private elementary or secondary school or college, as defined
18 in section two of the education law, and the term "communication" shall
19 include, but is not limited to any written, electronic, telephonic or
20 spoken communication.
21 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
22 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05977-01-9
