Bill Text: AZ HB2577 | 2010 | Forty-ninth Legislature 2nd Regular | Introduced

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Bill Title: Incest; classification.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-25 - Referred to House JUD Committee [HB2577 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2010-HB2577-Introduced.html

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REFERENCE TITLE: incest; classification.

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Forty-ninth Legislature

Second Regular Session

2010

 

 

HB 2577

 

Introduced by

Representatives Mason, Lujan, Young Wright: Ash, Brown, Burges, Campbell CH, Driggs, Farley, Goodale, Jones, Meyer, Murphy, Nichols, Schapira

 

 

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