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2000 SESSION
002277884Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§ 18.2-60 and 18.2-83 of the Code of Virginia are amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 18.2-60. Threats of death or bodily injury to a person or member of his family; certain oral threats communicated to school personnel; penalty.
A. If any person write or compose and also send, post or procure the sending or
posting of any letter, inscribed communication or electronically transmitted or
posted communication producing a visual or electronic message, so written or
composed, whether such letter or communication be signed or anonymous, to any
person or posts such communication in a public place or on an electronic
site, containing a threat to kill or do bodily injury to the person to whom who
is the subject of such letter or communication is sent, or a threat to kill or
do bodily injury to any member of his or her family, the person so writing or composing and
sending, posting or electronically transmitting, or procuring the sending,
posting or electronic transmission of such letter or communication
shall be guilty of a Class 6 felony.and Such prosecution may be prosecuted
either in the county, city or town in which the letter or inscribed
communication is composed, written, sent, posted, or electronically
transmitted, or procured to be sent, posted, or electronically transmitted, or
in the county, city or town in which the letter or inscribed communication is received.
B. If any person orally makes a threat to any employee or student of any
elementary, middle or secondary school, while on a school bus, on school property or at a
school-sponsored activity, to kill or to do bodily injury to such person, he shall be
guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor 6 felony.
§ 18.2-83. Threats to bomb or damage buildings or means of transportation; false information as to danger to such buildings, etc.; punishment; venue.
A. Any person (a) who makes and communicates to another by any means or posts
in a public place or on an electronic site any threat to bomb, burn, destroy or
in any manner damage any place of assembly, building or other structure, or any means
of transportation, or (b) who communicates to another, by any means, or posts
in a public place or on an electronic site information, knowing the same to be
false, as to the existence of any peril of bombing, burning, destruction or damage to
any such place of assembly, building or other structure, or any means of
transportation, shall be guilty of a Class 5 felony; provided, however, that.
However, if such person be is under fifteen years of age, he shall be guilty of
a Class 1 misdemeanor.
B. A violation of this section may be prosecuted either in the jurisdiction from which the communication or posting was made or in the jurisdiction where the communication was received.
2. That the provisions of this act may result in a net increase in periods of imprisonment in state correctional facilities. Pursuant to § 30-19.1:4, the estimated amount of the necessary appropriation is $152,759 in FY 2001.