508.075 Terroristic threatening in the first degree.

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(1)A person is guilty of terroristic threatening in the first degree when he or she:

(a)Intentionally makes false statements that he or she or another person has

placed a weapon of mass destruction on:

1. The real property or any building of any public or private elementary or

secondary school, vocational school, or institution of postsecondary

education;

2. A school bus or other vehicle owned, operated, or leased by a school;

3. The real property or any building public or private that is the site of an

official school-sanctioned function;

4. The real property or any building owned or leased by a government

agency;

5. The real property or any building owned or leased by a domestic

violence shelter as defined in KRS 511.085;

6. Any workplace; or

7. The real property or any building public or private that is the site of any

gathering of three

(3)or more persons; or

(b)Intentionally and without lawful authority, places a counterfeit weapon of

mass destruction at any location or on any object specified in paragraph

(a)of

this subsection.

(2)A counterfeit weapon of mass destruction is placed with lawful authority if it is

placed, with the written permission of the chief officer of the school or other

institution, as a part of an official training exercise and is placed by a public

servant, as defined in KRS 522.010.

(3)A person is not guilty of commission of an offense under this section if he or she,

innocently and believing the information to be true, communicates a threat made by

another person to school personnel, domestic violence shelter personnel, a peace

officer, a law enforcement agency, a public agency involved in emergency

response, or a public safety answering point and identifies the person from whom

the threat was communicated, if known.

(4)Terroristic threatening in the first degree is a Class C felony.