New York Laws
Article 240 - Offenses Against Public Order
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.

Structure New York Laws

New York Laws

PEN - Penal

Part 3 - Specific Offenses

Title N - Offenses Against Public Order, Public Sensibilities and the Right to Privacy

Article 240 - Offenses Against Public Order

240.00 - Offenses Against Public Order; Definitions of Terms.

240.05 - Riot in the Second Degree.

240.06 - Riot in the First Degree.

240.08 - Inciting to Riot.

240.10 - Unlawful Assembly.

240.15 - Criminal Anarchy.

240.20 - Disorderly Conduct.

240.21 - Disruption or Disturbance of a Religious Service, Funeral, Burial or Memorial Service.

240.25 - Harassment in the First Degree.

240.26 - Harassment in the Second Degree.

240.30 - Aggravated Harassment in the Second Degree.

240.31 - Aggravated Harassment in the First Degree.

240.32 - Aggravated Harassment of an Employee by an Incarcerated Individual.

240.35 - Loitering.

240.36 - Loitering in the First Degree.

240.40 - Appearance in Public Under the Influence of Narcotics or a Drug Other Than Alcohol.

240.45 - Criminal Nuisance in the Second Degree.

240.46 - Criminal Nuisance in the First Degree.

240.48 - Disseminating a False Registered Sex Offender Notice.

240.50 - Falsely Reporting an Incident in the Third Degree.

240.55 - Falsely Reporting an Incident in the Second Degree.

240.60 - Falsely Reporting an Incident in the First Degree.

240.61 - Placing a False Bomb or Hazardous Substance in the Second Degree.

240.62 - Placing a False Bomb or Hazardous Substance in the First Degree.

240.63 - Placing a False Bomb or Hazardous Substance in a Sports Stadium or Arena, Mass Transportation Facility or Enclosed Shopping Mall.

240.65 - Unlawful Prevention of Public Access to Records.

240.70 - Criminal Interference With Health Care Services or Religious Worship in the Second Degree.

240.71 - Criminal Interference With Health Care Services or Religious Worship in the First Degree.

240.72 - Aggravated Interference With Health Care Services in the Second Degree.

240.73 - Aggravated Interference With Health Care Services in the First Degree.

240.75 - Aggravated Family Offense.

240.76 - Directing a Laser at an Aircraft in the Second Degree.

240.77 - Directing a Laser at an Aircraft in the First Degree.

240.78 - Making a Threat of Mass Harm.

240.79 - Aggravated Threat of Mass Harm.