708.6 Intimidation with a dangerous weapon.
1. A person commits a class “C” felony when the person, with the intent to injure or provoke fear or anger in another, shoots, throws, launches, or discharges a dangerous weapon at, into, or in a building, vehicle, airplane, railroad engine, railroad car, or boat, occupied by another person, or within an assembly of people, and thereby places the occupants or people in reasonable apprehension of serious injury or threatens to commit such an act under circumstances raising a reasonable expectation that the threat will be carried out.
2. A person commits a class “D” felony when the person shoots, throws, launches, or discharges a dangerous weapon at, into, or in a building, vehicle, airplane, railroad engine, railroad car, or boat, occupied by another person, or within an assembly of people, and thereby places the occupants or people in reasonable apprehension of serious injury or threatens to commit such an act under circumstances raising a reasonable expectation that the threat will be carried out.
[C97, §4799, 4810; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §13081, 13123; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, §714.2, 716.11; C79, 81, §708.6; 81 Acts, ch 204, §5]
93 Acts, ch 112, §1, 2; 2002 Acts, ch 1075, §8; 2018 Acts, ch 1041, §127
Referred to in §80A.4, 708.2, 708.2A, 723A.1, 804.21
Structure Iowa Code
Title XVI - CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE
Section 708.1 - Assault defined.
Section 708.2 - Penalties for assault.
Section 708.2B - Treatment of domestic abuse offenders.
Section 708.2C - Assault in violation of individual rights — penalties.
Section 708.3 - Assault while participating in a felony.
Section 708.3A - Assaults on persons engaged in certain occupations.
Section 708.3B - Inmate assaults — bodily fluids or secretions.
Section 708.4 - Willful injury.
Section 708.5 - Administering harmful substances.
Section 708.6 - Intimidation with a dangerous weapon.
Section 708.8 - Going armed with intent.
Section 708.9 - Spring guns and traps.
Section 708.11A - Unauthorized placement of global positioning device.
Section 708.12 - Removal of an officer’s communication or control device.
Section 708.13 - Disarming a peace officer of a dangerous weapon.
Section 708.14 - Abuse of a corpse.