1. (a) Unlawful endangerment is knowingly protecting or attempting to protect the manufacture or cultivation of a controlled substance by creating, setting up, building, erecting or using any device or weapon which:

   1. (1) Causes great bodily harm;
   2. (2) causes bodily harm; or
   3. (3) is intended to cause bodily harm to another person.

2. (b) Unlawful endangerment as defined in:

   1. (1) Subsection (a)(1) is a severity level 5, person felony;
   2. (2) subsection (a)(2) is a severity level 7, person felony; and
   3. (3) subsection (a)(3) is a severity level 8, nonperson felony.
3. (c) A person who violates the provisions of this section may also be prosecuted for, convicted of, and punished for battery.
4. (d) As used in this section, "manufacture" and "cultivation" mean the same as in K.S.A. 21-5701, and amendments thereto.

L. 2010, ch. 136, § 195; July 1, 2011.