N.D. Cent. Code § 12.1-27.2-01

Current through the 2023 Legislative Sessions
Section 12.1-27.2-01 - Definitions

As used in this chapter:

1. "Obscene sexual performance" means any performance which includes sexual conduct by a minor in any obscene material or obscene performance, as defined in section 12.1-27.1-01.
2. "Performance" means any play, motion picture, photograph, dance, or other visual representation, or any part of a performance.
3. "Promote" means to procure, manufacture, issue, sell, give, provide, lend, mail, deliver, transfer, transmit, ship, transport, publish, distribute, circulate, disseminate, present, exhibit, or advertise.
4. "Sexual conduct" means actual or simulated:
a. Sexual intercourse;
b. Sodomy, as defined under section 12.1-27.1-01;
c. Sexual bestiality;
d. Masturbation;
e. Sadomasochistic abuse, as defined under section 12.1-27.1-01;
f. Lewd exhibition of the buttocks, breasts, or genitals;
g. Nude or partially denuded human figure, as defined in section 12.1-27.1-03.1, if depicted for the purpose of the sexual stimulation or the sexual gratification of any individual who many view such depiction; or
h. Physical contact with a person's clothed or unclothed genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or breasts. It is not necessary that the minor know that he or she is participating in the described conduct, or any aspect of it.
5. "Sexual performance" means any performance which includes sexual conduct by a minor.
6. "Simulated" means the explicit depiction of any of the conduct set forth in subsection 4 which creates the appearance of actual sexual conduct and which exhibits any nude or partially denuded human figure, as defined in section 12.1-27.1-03.1.

N.D.C.C. § 12.1-27.2-01

Amended by S.L. 2017, ch. 101 (HB 1183),§ 3, eff. 8/1/2017.
Amended by S.L. 2015, ch. 108 (SB 2266),§ 1, eff. 8/1/2015.
Amended by S.L. 2011, ch. 370 (SB 2233),§ 1, eff. 8/1/2011.