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Section 102 - Incest -- Definitions -- Penalty.

UT Code § 76-7-102 (2019) (N/A)
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(1) As used in this section: (a) "Provider" means a person who provides or makes available his seminal fluid or her human egg. (b) "Related person" means a person related to the provider or actor as an ancestor, descendant, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, or first cousin, and includes: (i) blood relationships of the whole or half blood without regard to legitimacy; (ii) the relationship of parent and child by adoption; and (iii) the relationship of stepparent and stepchild while the marriage creating the relationship of a stepparent and stepchild exists.

(a) "Provider" means a person who provides or makes available his seminal fluid or her human egg.

(b) "Related person" means a person related to the provider or actor as an ancestor, descendant, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, or first cousin, and includes: (i) blood relationships of the whole or half blood without regard to legitimacy; (ii) the relationship of parent and child by adoption; and (iii) the relationship of stepparent and stepchild while the marriage creating the relationship of a stepparent and stepchild exists.

(i) blood relationships of the whole or half blood without regard to legitimacy;

(ii) the relationship of parent and child by adoption; and

(iii) the relationship of stepparent and stepchild while the marriage creating the relationship of a stepparent and stepchild exists.

(2) (a) An actor is guilty of incest when, under circumstances not amounting to rape, rape of a child, or aggravated sexual assault, the actor knowingly and intentionally: (i) engages in conduct under Subsection (2)(b)(i), (ii), (iii), or (iv); or (ii) provides a human egg or seminal fluid under Subsection (2)(b)(v). (b) Conduct referred to under Subsection (2)(a) is: (i) sexual intercourse between the actor and a person the actor knows has kinship to the actor as a related person; (ii) the insertion or placement of the provider's seminal fluid into the vagina, cervix, or uterus of a related person by means other than sexual intercourse; (iii) providing or making available his seminal fluid for the purpose of insertion or placement of the fluid into the vagina, cervix, or uterus of a related person by means other than sexual intercourse; (iv) a woman 18 years of age or older who: (A) knowingly allows the insertion of the seminal fluid of a provider into her vagina, cervix, or uterus by means other than sexual intercourse; and (B) knows that the seminal fluid is that of a person with whom she has kinship as a related person; or (v) providing the actor's sperm or human egg that is used to conduct in vitro fertilization, or any other means of fertilization, with the human egg or sperm of a person who is a related person. (c) This Subsection (2) does not prohibit providing a fertilized human egg if the provider of the fertilizing sperm is not a related person regarding the person providing the egg.

(a) An actor is guilty of incest when, under circumstances not amounting to rape, rape of a child, or aggravated sexual assault, the actor knowingly and intentionally: (i) engages in conduct under Subsection (2)(b)(i), (ii), (iii), or (iv); or (ii) provides a human egg or seminal fluid under Subsection (2)(b)(v).

(i) engages in conduct under Subsection (2)(b)(i), (ii), (iii), or (iv); or

(ii) provides a human egg or seminal fluid under Subsection (2)(b)(v).

(b) Conduct referred to under Subsection (2)(a) is: (i) sexual intercourse between the actor and a person the actor knows has kinship to the actor as a related person; (ii) the insertion or placement of the provider's seminal fluid into the vagina, cervix, or uterus of a related person by means other than sexual intercourse; (iii) providing or making available his seminal fluid for the purpose of insertion or placement of the fluid into the vagina, cervix, or uterus of a related person by means other than sexual intercourse; (iv) a woman 18 years of age or older who: (A) knowingly allows the insertion of the seminal fluid of a provider into her vagina, cervix, or uterus by means other than sexual intercourse; and (B) knows that the seminal fluid is that of a person with whom she has kinship as a related person; or (v) providing the actor's sperm or human egg that is used to conduct in vitro fertilization, or any other means of fertilization, with the human egg or sperm of a person who is a related person.

(i) sexual intercourse between the actor and a person the actor knows has kinship to the actor as a related person;

(ii) the insertion or placement of the provider's seminal fluid into the vagina, cervix, or uterus of a related person by means other than sexual intercourse;

(iii) providing or making available his seminal fluid for the purpose of insertion or placement of the fluid into the vagina, cervix, or uterus of a related person by means other than sexual intercourse;

(iv) a woman 18 years of age or older who: (A) knowingly allows the insertion of the seminal fluid of a provider into her vagina, cervix, or uterus by means other than sexual intercourse; and (B) knows that the seminal fluid is that of a person with whom she has kinship as a related person; or

(A) knowingly allows the insertion of the seminal fluid of a provider into her vagina, cervix, or uterus by means other than sexual intercourse; and

(B) knows that the seminal fluid is that of a person with whom she has kinship as a related person; or

(v) providing the actor's sperm or human egg that is used to conduct in vitro fertilization, or any other means of fertilization, with the human egg or sperm of a person who is a related person.

(c) This Subsection (2) does not prohibit providing a fertilized human egg if the provider of the fertilizing sperm is not a related person regarding the person providing the egg.

(3) Incest is a third degree felony.

(4) A provider under this section is not a donor under Section 78B-15-702.

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Section 102 - Incest -- Definitions -- Penalty.