WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                            Ch. 523

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

464B.

(a)     A person is guilty of a sexual offense in the third degree if the person engages
in [sexual contact]:

(1)      [With] SEXUAL CONTACT WITH another person against the will and
without the consent of the other person, and:

(i) Employs or displays a dangerous or deadly weapon or an article
which the other person reasonably concludes is a dangerous or deadly weapon; or

(ii) Inflicts suffocation, strangulation, disfigurement or serious
physical injury upon the other person or upon anyone else in the course of committing
that offense; or

(iii) Threatens or places the victim in fear that the victim or any person
known to the victim will be imminently subjected to death, suffocation, strangulation,
disfigurement, serious physical injury, or kidnapping; or

(iv) Commits the offense aided and abetted by one or more other
persons; or

(2)      [With] SEXUAL CONTACT WITH another person who is mentally
defective, mentally incapacitated, or physically helpless, and the person knows or should
reasonably know the other person is mentally defective, mentally incapacitated, or
physically helpless; or

(3)      [With] SEXUAL CONTACT WITH another person who is under 14 years
of age and the person performing the sexual contact is four or more years older than the
victim [.]; OR

(4)      A SEXUAL ACT WITH ANOTHER PERSON WHO IS 14 OR 15 YEARS OF
AGE AND THE PERSON PERFORMING THE SEXUAL ACT IS AT LEAST 25 21 YEARS OF
AGE; OR

(5)      VAGINAL INTERCOURSE WITH ANOTHER PERSON WHO IS 14 OR 15
YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON PERFORMING THE ACT IS AT LEAST 25 21 YEARS OF
AGE.

(b)     Any person violating the provisions of this section is guilty of a felony and
upon conviction is subject to imprisonment for a period of not more than 10 years.

464C.

(a) A person is guilty of a sexual offense in the fourth degree if the person
engages:

(1) In sexual contact with another person against the will and without the
consent of the other person; or

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