PRINTER'S NO. 1998
No. 1677 Session of 1995
INTRODUCED BY STEELMAN, BELARDI, PLATTS, COY, CORRIGAN, CARONE,
HALUSKA, PISTELLA, ROONEY, ITKIN, TRELLO, JOSEPHS, CURRY,
BATTISTO, LAUGHLIN, LYNCH AND WALKO, MAY 24, 1995
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, MAY 24, 1995
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, further providing for penalties and
3 definitions relating to terroristic threats.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 2706 of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 2706. Terroristic threats.
9 [A person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree if
10 he threatens to commit any crime of violence with intent to
11 terrorize another or to cause evacuation of a building, place of
12 assembly, or facility of public transportation, or otherwise to
13 cause serious public inconvenience, or in reckless disregard of
14 the risk of causing such terror or inconvenience.]
15 (a) Terroristic threats against an individual.--A person
16 commits terroristic threats against an individual if he
17 threatens to commit any crime of violence with the intent to
18 terrorize another.
1 (b) Terroristic threats against a group of persons.--A
2 person commits terroristic threats against a group of persons if
3 he threatens to commit any crime of violence, including, but not
4 limited to, bomb threats with the intent to terrorize others or
5 to cause the evacuation of a building, place of assembly or
6 facility of public transportation, or to disrupt the operation
7 of a place of business or to otherwise cause serious public
8 inconvenience or in reckless disregard of the risk of causing
9 such terror or inconvenience.
10 (c) Penalties.--
11 (1) A person who violates subsection (a) commits a
12 misdemeanor of the first degree.
13 (2) A person who violates subsection (b) commits a
14 felony of the third degree.
15 (3) The sentencing court shall require a person who
16 violates this section to make restitution for any costs
17 incurred by the threatened party or by any emergency agency
18 responding to the report.
19 (d) Definitions.--As used in this section, the following
20 words and phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this
21 subsection:
22 "Bomb." A device capable of producing damage to material and
23 injury or death to people through fragmentation, heat and blast
24 waves or through the production of incendiary heat when the
25 device is detonated or ignited.
26 "Bomb threat." A message delivered by any means warning or
27 claiming the presence of one or more bombs, possibly but not
28 necessarily including the location and possible detonation time
29 of the bomb, or an ultimatum relating to the detonation,
30 ignition or concealment of the bomb.
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1 "Crime of violence." Criminal acts including, but not
2 limited to, murder, rape, aggravated assault, robbery, burglary,
3 entering a building with the intent to commit a crime therein,
4 bombing and kidnapping.
5 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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