KRS 508.075: Terroristic threatening in the first degree.

(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 pr ivate 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 specifie d 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 exer cise 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.