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Ark. Code Ann. § 5-27-302

Definitions

Applied in 9 court decisions — leading case Cummings v. State (2003)

Most recently applied in Terry E. Break v. State of Arkansas (December 2022)

Acts 1979, No. 499, § 2; A.S.A. 1947, § 41-4202; Acts 1995, No. 1209, § 1; 2007, No. 827, § 35; 2011, No. 1190, § 1; 2013, No. 1114, § 1.

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As used in this subchapter:

(1) “Child” means any person under eighteen (18) years of age;

(2) “Commercial exploitation” means having monetary or other material gain as a direct or indirect goal;

(3) “Producing” means producing, directing, manufacturing, issuing, publishing, or advertising;

(4) “Sexually explicit conduct” means actual or simulated: Sexual intercourse, including genital-genital, oral-genital, anal-genital, or oral-anal, whether between persons of the same or opposite sex;

(5) Bestiality;

(6) Masturbation;

(7) Sadomasochistic abuse for the purpose of sexual stimulation; or

(8) Lewd exhibition of: The genitals or pubic area of any person; or

(9) The breast of a female; and

(10) “Visual or print medium” means any film, photograph, negative, slide, book, magazine, magnetic image, electronic image, or other visual or print medium other than material specifically used by a licensed medical professional or mental health professional, or both, for the purpose of assessment, evaluation, and treatment of a sex offender.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.