This text of New Mexico § 30-20-16 (Bomb scares and shooting threats unlawful) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering New Mexico primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
A. Making a bomb scare consists of intentionally and maliciously stating to another person that a bomb or other explosive has been placed in such a position that property or persons are likely to be injured or destroyed. B. Making a shooting threat consists of intentionally and maliciously communicating to another person a serious expression of an intent to bring a firearm to a property or use the firearm and an intent to:
(1)place a person or group of persons in fear of great bodily harm, and a person or group of persons was placed in fear of great bodily harm;
(2)prevent or interrupt the occupation or use of a public building, and the occupation or use of a public building was prevented or interrupted; or (3) cause a response to the threat by a law enforcement official or volunteer age
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A. Making a bomb scare consists of intentionally and maliciously stating to another person that a bomb or other explosive has been placed in such a position that property or persons are likely to be injured or destroyed. B. Making a shooting threat consists of intentionally and maliciously communicating to another person a serious expression of an intent to bring a firearm to a property or use the firearm and an intent to: (1) place a person or group of persons in fear of great bodily harm, and a person or group of persons was placed in fear of great bodily harm; (2) prevent or interrupt the occupation or use of a public building, and the occupation or use of a public building was prevented or interrupted; or (3) cause a response to the threat by a law enforcement official or volunteer agency organized to deal with emergencies, and the threat caused a response by a law enforcement official or volunteer agency organized to deal with emergencies. C. Whoever commits making a bomb scare is guilty of a fourth degree felony. D. Whoever commits making a shooting threat is guilty of a fourth degree felony. E. A court may order a person convicted for the offense of making a bomb scare or shooting threat to reimburse the victim of the offense for economic harm caused by that offense. F. As used in this section, "economic harm" means all direct, incidental and consequential financial harm suffered by a victim of the offense of making a bomb scare or shooting threat. "Economic harm" includes: (1) wages, salaries or other compensation lost as a result of the commission of the offense of making a bomb scare or shooting threat; (2) the cost of all wages, salaries or other compensation paid to employees for time that those employees are prevented from working as a result of the commission of the offense of making a bomb scare or shooting threat; and (3) overhead costs incurred for the period of time that a business is shut down as a result of the commission of the offense of making a bomb scare or shooting threat.