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<section article="gcr" article_name="Criminal Law" number="11-206" title_number="11" title_name="Indecency and Obscenity" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Obscene Matter">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A person may not knowingly require a purchaser or consignee to receive obscene matter as a condition to a sale, allocation, consignment, or delivery for resale of a paper, magazine, book, periodical, publication, or other merchandise.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>In response to a person’s return of or failure to accept obscene matter, a person may not knowingly:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>deny or revoke a franchise;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>threaten to deny or revoke a franchise; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>impose a financial or other penalty.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>for a first violation, imprisonment not exceeding 1 year or a fine not exceeding $1,000 or both; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>for each subsequent violation, imprisonment not exceeding 3 years or a fine not exceeding $5,000 or both.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
