18.2-83 - Threats to bomb or damage buildings or means of transportation; false information as to danger to such buildings, etc.; punishment; venue. - Virginia Statutes

§ 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 anythreat to bomb, burn, destroy or in any manner damage any place of assembly,building or other structure, or any means of transportation, or (b) whocommunicates to another, by any means, information, knowing the same to befalse, as to the existence of any peril of bombing, burning, destruction ordamage to any such place of assembly, building or other structure, or anymeans of transportation, shall be guilty of a Class 5 felony; provided,however, that if such person be under fifteen years of age, he shall beguilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

B. A violation of this section may be prosecuted either in the jurisdictionfrom which the communication was made or in the jurisdiction where thecommunication was received.

(Code 1950, §§ 18.1-78.1 through 18.2-78.4; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15;1982, c. 502.)