18-1515. DISSEMINATING MATERIAL HARMFUL TO MINORS — DEFINED — PENALTY. A person is guilty of disseminating material harmful to minors when:
1. He knowingly gives or makes available to a minor or promotes or possesses with intent to promote to minors, or he knowingly sells or loans to a minor for monetary consideration:
(a) Any picture, photograph, drawing, sculpture, motion picture film, or similar visual representation or image of a person or portion of the human body which depicts nudity, sexual conduct or sado-masochistic abuse and which is harmful to minors; or
(b) Any book, pamphlet, magazine, printed matter however reproduced, or sound recording which contains any matter enumerated in paragraph (a) hereof, or explicit and detailed verbal descriptions or narrative accounts of sexual excitement, sexual conduct or sado-masochistic abuse and which, taken as a whole, is harmful to minors; or
(c) Any other material harmful to minors.
2. With reference to a motion picture, show or other presentation which depicts nudity, sexual conduct or sado-masochistic abuse, and which is harmful to minors, he knowingly:
(a) Exhibits such motion picture, show or other presentation to a minor for a monetary consideration; or
(b) Sells to a minor an admission ticket or pass to premises whereon there is exhibited or to be exhibited such motion picture, show or other presentation; or
(c) Admits a minor for a monetary consideration to premises whereon there is exhibited or to be exhibited such motion picture, show or other presentation; or
(d) Exhibits such motion picture, show or other presentation to a minor not for a monetary consideration; or
(e) Gives without monetary consideration to a minor an admission ticket or pass to premises where there is exhibited or to be exhibited such motion picture, show, or other presentation.
Disseminating material harmful to minors is a misdemeanor punishable by confinement in the county jail not to exceed one (1) year, or by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both such fine and jail sentence.
History:
[I.C., sec. 18-1515, as added by 1972, ch. 336, sec. 1, p. 875.]
Structure Idaho Code
Title 18 - CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
Chapter 15 - CHILDREN AND VULNERABLE ADULTS
Section 18-1501 - INJURY TO CHILDREN.
Section 18-1502 - BEER, WINE OR OTHER ALCOHOL AGE VIOLATIONS — FINES.
Section 18-1502B - POSSESSION OF INHALANTS BY MINORS.
Section 18-1505 - ABUSE, EXPLOITATION OR NEGLECT OF A VULNERABLE ADULT.
Section 18-1505A - ABANDONING A VULNERABLE ADULT.
Section 18-1505B - SEXUAL ABUSE AND EXPLOITATION OF A VULNERABLE ADULT.
Section 18-1506 - SEXUAL ABUSE OF A CHILD UNDER THE AGE OF SIXTEEN YEARS.
Section 18-1506A - RITUALIZED ABUSE OF A CHILD — EXCLUSIONS — PENALTIES — DEFINITION.
Section 18-1506B - FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION OF A CHILD — EXCLUSIONS — PENALTIES — DEFINITION.
Section 18-1507 - DEFINITIONS — SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF A CHILD — PENALTIES.
Section 18-1507A - SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF A CHILD BY ELECTRONIC MEANS.
Section 18-1508 - LEWD CONDUCT WITH MINOR CHILD UNDER SIXTEEN.
Section 18-1508A - SEXUAL BATTERY OF A MINOR CHILD SIXTEEN OR SEVENTEEN YEARS OF AGE — PENALTY.
Section 18-1509 - ENTICING OF CHILDREN.
Section 18-1510 - PROVIDING SHELTER TO RUNAWAY CHILDREN.
Section 18-1512 - MEDICAL BILLS PAYMENT FOR CHILD TO BE ADOPTED OR MOTHER AN EXCEPTION.
Section 18-1512A - ADVERTISING FOR ADOPTION — PROHIBITED ACTS.
Section 18-1513 - OBSCENE MATERIALS — DISSEMINATION TO MINORS — POLICY.
Section 18-1514 - OBSCENE MATERIALS — DEFINITIONS.
Section 18-1515 - DISSEMINATING MATERIAL HARMFUL TO MINORS — DEFINED — PENALTY.
Section 18-1516 - MISREPRESENTATIONS — PARENTHOOD OR AGE — MISDEMEANOR.
Section 18-1517 - DISSEMINATING MATERIAL HARMFUL TO MINORS — DEFENSES.
Section 18-1517A - HIRING, EMPLOYING, ETC., MINOR TO ENGAGE IN CERTAIN ACTS — PENALTY.
Section 18-1518 - TIE-IN SALES OF PROHIBITED MATERIALS — MISDEMEANOR.
Section 18-1519 - EACH PROHIBITED ITEM DISSEMINATED CONSTITUTES SEPARATE OFFENSE.
Section 18-1520 - DISTRICT COURTS — INJUNCTIONS — TRIAL — ORDERS OF INJUNCTION.
Section 18-1522 - UNAUTHORIZED SCHOOL BUS ENTRY — NOTICE.
Section 18-1523 - MINORS — TATTOOING, BRANDING, TANNING DEVICES AND BODY PIERCING.