N.Y. Penal Law § 240.78: Making a threat of mass harm

§ 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.