Bill Text: AZ HB2206 | 2010 | Forty-ninth Legislature 2nd Regular | Introduced


Bill Title: Incest; classification

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-20 - Referred to House JUD Committee [HB2206 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2010-HB2206-Introduced.html

 

 

 

REFERENCE TITLE: incest; classification

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Forty-ninth Legislature

Second Regular Session

2010

 

 

HB 2206

 

Introduced by

Representative Lujan

 

 

AN ACT

 

Amending section 13-3608, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to family offenses.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 



Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Section 13-3608, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE13-3608.  Incest; classification

A.  Persons who are A person who is at least eighteen or more years of age and are who knowingly intermarries or who knowingly commits fornication or adultery with another person who is within the degrees of consanguinity within which marriages are declared by law to be incestuous and void, who knowingly intermarry with each other, or who knowingly commit fornication or adultery with each other are is guilty of incest.

B.  Incest is a class 2 felony if the other person is a minor who is under fifteen years of age.  Incest is a class 3 felony if the other person is a minor who is at least fifteen years of age.  Incest is a class 4 felony if the other person is at least eighteen years of age. END_STATUTE

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