§ 490.05 Definitions.\n As used in this article, the following terms shall mean and include:\n 1. "Act of terrorism":\n (a) for purposes of this article means an act or acts constituting a\nspecified offense as defined in subdivision three of this section for\nwhich a person may be convicted in the criminal courts of this state\npursuant to article twenty of the criminal procedure law, or an act or\nacts constituting an offense in any other jurisdiction within or outside\nthe territorial boundaries of the United States which contains all of\nthe essential elements of a specified offense, that is intended to:\n (i) intimidate or coerce a civilian population;\n (ii) influence the policy of a unit of government by intimidation or\ncoercion; or\n (iii) affect the conduct of a unit of government by murder,\nassassination or kidnapping; or\n (b) for purposes of subparagraph (xiii) of paragraph (a) of\nsubdivision one of section 125.27 of this chapter means activities that\ninvolve a violent act or acts dangerous to human life that are in\nviolation of the criminal laws of this state and are intended to:\n (i) intimidate or coerce a civilian population;\n (ii) influence the policy of a unit of government by intimidation or\ncoercion; or\n (iii) affect the conduct of a unit of government by murder,\nassassination or kidnapping.\n 2. "Material support or resources" means currency or other financial\nsecurities, financial services, lodging, training, safehouses, false\ndocumentation or identification, communications equipment, facilities,\nweapons, lethal substances, explosives, personnel, transportation, and\nother physical assets, except medicine or religious materials.\n 3. (a) "Specified offense" for purposes of this article means a class\nA felony offense other than an offense as defined in article two hundred\ntwenty, a violent felony offense as defined in section 70.02,\nmanslaughter in the second degree as defined in section 125.15, criminal\ntampering in the first degree as defined in section 145.20, identity\ntheft in the second degree as defined in section 190.79, identity theft\nin the first degree as defined in section 190.80, unlawful possession of\npersonal identification information in the second degree as defined in\nsection 190.82, unlawful possession of personal identification\ninformation in the first degree as defined in section 190.83, money\nlaundering in support of terrorism in the fourth degree as defined in\nsection 470.21, money laundering in support of terrorism in the third\ndegree as defined in section 470.22, money laundering in support of\nterrorism in the second degree as defined in section 470.23, money\nlaundering in support of terrorism in the first degree as defined in\nsection 470.24 of this chapter, and includes an attempt or conspiracy to\ncommit any such offense.\n (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of this\nsubdivision, a specified offense shall not mean an offense defined in\nsections 490.37, 490.40, 490.45, 490.47, 490.50, and 490.55 of this\narticle, nor shall a specified offense mean an attempt to commit any\nsuch offense.\n 4. "Renders criminal assistance" for purposes of sections 490.30 and\n490.35 of this article shall have the same meaning as in section 205.50\nof this chapter.\n 5. "Biological agent" means any micro-organism, virus, infectious\nsubstance, or biological product that may be engineered as a result of\nbiotechnology, or any naturally occurring or bioengineered component of\nany such micro-organism, virus, infectious substance, or biological\nproduct, capable of causing:\n (a) death, disease, or other biological malfunction in a human, an\nanimal, a plant, or another living organism;\n (b) deterioration of food, water, equipment, supplies, or material of\nany kind; or\n (c) deleterious alteration of the environment.\n 6. "Toxin" means the toxic material of plants, animals,\nmicro-organisms, viruses, fungi, or infectious substances, or a\nr
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