In Utah, the manufacture, sale, use or attempted use of a hoax weapon of mass destruction is a 2nd degree Felony punishable up to 15 years in the Utah State Prison (Utah Code Ann. 76-10-403).
Any person who without lawful authority intentionally or knowingly manufactures, possesses, sells, delivers, displays, uses, attempts to use, solicits the use of, or conspires to use a hoax weapon of mass destruction with the intent to deceive or otherwise mislead another person into believing that the hoax weapon of mass destruction is a weapon of mass destruction is guilty of a second degree felony.
Although, it appears that the Utah Code fails to define “weapon of mass destruction”. “Weapon of Mass Destruction” is generally defined as a weapon that can kill and bring significant harm to a large number of humans (and other life forms like you cat or dog) and/or cause great damage to man-made structures (e.g. your home, office building or school or natural structures (e.g. mountains). The scope and application of the term has evolved and been disputed, often signifying more politically than technically. Coined in reference to aerial bombing with chemical explosives, it has come to distinguish large-scale weaponry of other technologies, such as chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear.
