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5-54-204. Falsely communicating a terrorist threat.
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5-54-204. Falsely communicating a terrorist threat.
(a) A person commits the offense of falsely communicating a terrorist threat if, in any manner, the person knowingly makes a threat to commit or cause to be committed a terrorist act or otherwise creates the impression or belief that a terrorist act is about to be or has been committed or in any manner knowingly makes a threat to commit or cause to be committed a catastrophe, as defined under § 5-38-202, that the person knows is false.
(b) Falsely communicating a terrorist threat is a Class B felony.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 5-54-204
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5-54-204. Falsely communicating a terrorist threat.
(a) A person commits the offense of falsely communicating a terrorist threat if, in any manner, the person knowingly makes a threat to commit or cause to be committed a terrorist act or otherwise creates the impression or belief that a terrorist act is about to be or has been committed or in any manner knowingly makes a threat to commit or cause to be committed a catastrophe, as defined under § 5-38-202, that the person knows is false.
(b) Falsely communicating a terrorist threat is a Class B felony.
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Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
5-38-202. Causing a catastrophe — Threatening to cause a catastrophe.
(a)(1) A person commits the offense of causing a catastrophe if he or she knowingly causes a catastrophe by:
(A) Explosion;
(B) Fire;
(C) Flood;
(D) Avalanche;
(E) Collapse of building;
(F) Distribution of a poison, radioactive material, bacteria, or virus; or
(G) Another dangerous and difficult to confine force or substance.
(2) Causing a catastrophe is a Class Y felony.
(b)(1) A person commits the offense of threatening to cause a catastrophe if he or she:
(A) Contacts any person, company, corporation, or governmental entity; and
(B) Threatens to cause a catastrophe by explosion, fire, flood, avalanche, collapse of building, release of a poison, radioactive material, bacteria, or virus, or another dangerous and difficult to confine force or substance, unless:
(i) Paid a sum of money or any type of property; or
(ii) The person, company, corporation, or governmental entity performs a requested act.
(2) Threatening to cause a catastrophe is a Class D felony.
(c) In addition to any other restitution ordered under § 5-4-205, a court may order that a person who violates this section make restitution to the state or any political subdivision of the state for any cleanup costs associated with the commission of the offense.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 5-38-202
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 5-38-202. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.