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609.341.11

Statute ID: 18191

Statute Function ID: 37463

Criminal Sexual Conduct - Definition - Sexual Contact

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Statute Number:

609.341.11

Enactment Date:

Jun 30, 2021

Effective Date:

Sep 15, 2021

Expiration Date:

Repealed?:

Summary Text:

Criminal Sexual Conduct - Definition - Sexual Contact

Statute ID:

18191

Created:

Sep 1, 2021 by mnjis.legal.analyst@state.mn.us

Updated:

Sep 1, 2021 by mnjis.legal.analyst@state.mn.us

Last Update Action:

Added

Legal Analyst Comment:

Amended 2021 SS1 C11 Art4 Sect8;

Summary Text:

Criminal Sexual Conduct - Definition - Sexual Contact

Link to MN Statute Text:

https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/stats/609/341.html

Legislative Session:

2021 - Regular

Session Law Text?:

Statute text last updated on:

Sep 1, 2021

(a) "Sexual contact," for the purposes of sections 609.343, subdivision 1, clauses (a) to(e), and subdivision 1a, clauses (a) to (f) and (i), and 609.345, subdivision 1, clauses (a) to (d) and (i), and subdivision 1a, clauses (a) to (e), (h), and (i), includes any of the following acts committed without the complainant's consent, except in those cases where consent is not a defense, and committed with sexual or aggressive intent:

(i) the intentional touching by the actor of the complainant's intimate parts, or

(ii) the touching by the complainant of the actor's, the complainant's, or another's intimate parts effected by a person in a current or recent position of authority, or by coercion, or by inducement if the complainant is under 14 years of age or mentally impaired, or

(iii) the touching by another of the complainant's intimate parts effected by coercion or by a person in a current or recent position of authority, or

(iv) in any of the cases above, the touching of the clothing covering the immediate area of the intimate parts, or

(v) the intentional touching with seminal fluid or sperm by the actor of the complainant's body or the clothing covering the complainant's body.

(b) "Sexual contact," for the purposes of sections 609.343, subdivision 1a, clauses (g) and (h), 609.345, subdivision 1a, clauses (f) and (g), and 609.3458, includes any of the following acts committed with sexual or aggressive intent:

(i) the intentional touching by the actor of the complainant's intimate parts;

(ii) the touching by the complainant of the actor's, the complainant's, or another's intimate parts;

(iii) the touching by another of the complainant's intimate parts;

(iv) in any of the cases listed above, touching of the clothing covering the immediate area of the intimate parts; or

(v) the intentional touching with seminal fluid or sperm by the actor of the complainant's body or the clothing covering the complainant's body.

(c) "Sexual contact with a person under 14" means the intentional touching of the complainant's bare genitals or anal opening by the actor's bare genitals or anal opening with sexual or aggressive intent or the touching by the complainant's bare genitals or anal opening of the actor's or another's bare genitals or anal opening with sexual or aggressive intent.