# Criminal Law (GCR)

## Title 3. Other Crimes Against the Person

### Subtitle 3. Sexual Crimes

#### Section 3-307

(a) A person may not:

  (1)

    (i) engage in sexual contact with another without the consent of the other; and

    (ii)

      (1) employ or display a dangerous weapon, or a physical object that the victim reasonably believes is a dangerous weapon;

      (2) suffocate, strangle, disfigure, or inflict serious physical injury on the victim or another in the course of committing the crime;

      (3) threaten, or place the victim in fear, that the victim, or an individual known to the victim, imminently will be subject to death, suffocation, strangulation, disfigurement, serious physical injury, or kidnapping;

      (4) commit the crime while aided and abetted by another; or

      (5) commit the crime in connection with a burglary in the first degree under Sec. 6-202 of this article, a burglary in the second degree under Sec. 6-203 of this article, or a burglary in the third degree under Sec. 6-204 of this article;

  (2) engage in sexual contact with another if the victim is a substantially cognitively impaired individual, a mentally incapacitated individual, or a physically helpless individual, and the person performing the act knows or reasonably should know the victim is a substantially cognitively impaired individual, a mentally incapacitated individual, or a physically helpless individual;

  (3) engage in sexual contact with another if the victim is under the age of 14 years, and the person performing the sexual contact is at least 4 years older than the victim;

  (4) engage in a sexual act with another if the victim is 14 or 15 years old, and the person performing the sexual act is at least 21 years old; or

  (5) engage in vaginal intercourse with another if the victim is 14 or 15 years old, and the person performing the act is at least 21 years old.

(b) A person who violates this section is guilty of the felony of sexual offense in the third degree and on conviction is subject to imprisonment not exceeding 10 years.

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Md. Code Ann., Crim. Law (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)