Sec. 1. 17-A MRSA §210, sub-§1, as amended by PL 1977, c. 671, §§23 and 24, is further amended to read:

1. A person is guilty of terrorizing if he that person communicates to any person a threat to commit or to cause to be committed a crime of violence dangerous to human life, against the person to whom the communication is made or another, and the natural and probable consequence of such a threat, whether or not such consequence in fact occurs, is:

A. To place the person to whom the threat is communicated or the person threatened in reasonable fear that the crime will be committed; or

B. To cause evacuation of a building, place of assembly or facility of public transport.; or

C.__To cause a building that can't reasonably be evacuated, such as a prison, nursing home or hospital, to be secured so that the people in the building are forced to remain in a designated secured area.

SUMMARY

Current law includes in the crime of criminal terrorizing a threat of violence whose natural and probable consequence is to cause the evacuation of a building, place of assembly or facility of public transport. This bill expands the crime to include such a threat whose natural and probable consequence is to secure buildings that can't be evacuated, such as prisons, nursing homes or hospitals.