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<section article="gcr" article_name="Criminal Law" number="3-301" title_number="3" title_name="Other Crimes Against the Person" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Sexual Crimes">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Mentally incapacitated individual” means an individual who, because of the influence of a drug, narcotic, or intoxicating substance, or because of an act committed on the individual without the individual’s consent or awareness, is rendered substantially incapable of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>appraising the nature of the individual’s conduct; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>resisting vaginal intercourse, a sexual act, or sexual contact.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Physically helpless individual” means an individual who:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>is unconscious; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>does not consent to vaginal intercourse, a sexual act, or sexual contact; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>is physically unable to resist, or communicate unwillingness to submit to, vaginal intercourse, a sexual act, or sexual contact.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Sexual act” means any of the following acts, regardless of whether semen is emitted:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>analingus;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>cunnilingus;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>fellatio;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>anal intercourse, including penetration, however slight, of the anus; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>an act:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>in which an object or part of an individual’s body penetrates, however slightly, into another individual’s genital opening or anus; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>that can reasonably be construed to be for sexual arousal or gratification, or for the abuse of either party.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Sexual act” does not include:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>vaginal intercourse; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>an act in which an object or part of an individual’s body penetrates an individual’s genital opening or anus for an accepted medical purpose.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Sexual contact”, as used in §§ 3–307, 3–308, and 3–314 of this subtitle, means an intentional touching of the victim’s or actor’s genital, anal, or other intimate area for sexual arousal or gratification, or for the abuse of either party.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Sexual contact” does not include:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a common expression of familial or friendly affection; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>an act for an accepted medical purpose.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Substantially cognitively impaired individual” means an individual who suffers from an intellectual disability or a mental disorder, either of which temporarily or permanently renders the individual substantially incapable of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>appraising the nature of the individual’s conduct;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>resisting vaginal intercourse, a sexual act, or sexual contact; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>communicating unwillingness to submit to vaginal intercourse, a sexual act, or sexual contact.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Vaginal intercourse” means genital copulation, whether or not semen is emitted.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Vaginal intercourse” includes penetration, however slight, of the vagina.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
