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Session Laws, 2007
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Ch. 495
2007 Laws of Maryland
(1) (i) engage in sexual contact with another without the consent of the other; and (ii) 1. employ or display a dangerous weapon, or a physical
object that the victim reasonably believes is a dangerous weapon;
2. suffocate, strangle, disfigure, or inflict serious
physical injury on the victim or another in the course of committing the crime;
3. threaten, or place the victim in fear, that the victim,
or an individual known to the victim, imminently will be subject to death, suffocation,
strangulation, disfigurement, serious physical injury, or kidnapping; or
4. commit the crime while aided and abetted by another; (2) engage in sexual contact with another if the victim is a mentally
defective individual, a mentally incapacitated individual, or a physically helpless
individual, and the person performing the act knows or reasonably should know the
victim is a mentally defective individual, a mentally incapacitated individual, or a
physically helpless individual;
(3) engage in sexual contact with another if the victim is under the age
of 14 years, and the person performing the sexual contact is at least 4 years older than
the victim;
(4) engage in a sexual act with another if the victim is 14 or 15 years
old, and the person performing the sexual act is at least 21 years old; or
(5) engage in vaginal intercourse with another if the victim is 14 or 15
years old, and the person performing the act is at least 21 years old.
(B) A PERSON 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER MAY NOT VIOLATE SUBSECTION (A)(1) OR (2) OF THIS SECTION INVOLVING A VICTIM WHO IS A CHILD UNDER THE AGE OF 13 YEARS. [(b)] (C) (1) [A] EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH (2) OF THIS SUBSECTION, A person who violates SUBSECTION (A) OF this section is guilty of the felony of sexual offense in the third degree and on conviction is subject to
imprisonment not exceeding 10 years.
                   (2) (I) SUBJECT TO SUBPARAGRAPH (IV) OF THIS PARAGRAPH, A PERSON 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER WHO VIOLATES SUBSECTION (B) OF THIS SECTION IS GUILTY OF THE FELONY OF SEXUAL OFFENSE IN THE THIRD DEGREE AND ON CONVICTION IS SUBJECT TO IMPRISONMENT FOR NOT LESS THAN 2 YEARS AND NOT EXCEEDING 10 YEARS.
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