Reckless Endangerment definition

Reckless Endangerment means subjecting individuals to danger by recklessly engaging in conduct that creates a grave risk of death or serious physical injury, but no actual physical injury.
Reckless Endangerment means when a person consciously and knowingly engages in conduct or behavior that may pose intentional harm or physical injuries to another human being or property.
Reckless Endangerment means any person who creates a physical circumstance or situation that creates a substantial risk of neglect where sexual abuse occurs, serious bodily injury or death to any other person. Also included under Reckless Endangerment are Child Endangerment, Elderly Endangerment and Disabled/Handicap Endangerment.

Related to Reckless Endangerment

  • Serious means violations that either result in one or more neg- ative outcomes and significant actual harm to residents that does not constitute imminent danger, or there is a reasonable predictability of recurring actions, practices, situations, or incidents with potential for causing significant harm to a resident, or both.

  • Reckless means a situation in which the defendant was aware of the risk created by his conduct and the risk was of such a nature and degree that to disregard that risk constituted a gross deviation from the standard of care that a reasonable person would exercise in such a situation. "Reckless" includes all, or nearly all, convictions for involuntary manslaughter under 18 U.S.C. § 1112. A homicide resulting from driving a means of transportation, or similarly dangerous actions, while under the influence of alcohol or drugs ordinarily should be treated as reckless.

  • Moral turpitude means conduct that is wrong in itself even if no statute were to prohibit the conduct; and

  • Acute toxicity means concurrent and delayed adverse effects that result from an acute exposure and occur within any short observation period, which begins when the exposure begins, may extend beyond the exposure period, and usually does not constitute a substantial portion of the life span of the organism.

  • Threatened or endangered species means all spe- cies of wildlife listed as "threatened" or "endangered" by the United States Secretary of the Interior or Commerce, and all species of wildlife designated as "threatened" or "endan- gered" by the Washington fish and wildlife commission.