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<section article="gcr" article_name="Criminal Law" number="3-307" title_number="3" title_name="Other Crimes Against the Person" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Sexual Crimes">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A person may not:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <level label="i">
        <text>engage in sexual contact with another without the consent of the other; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <level label="1">
          <text>employ or display a dangerous weapon, or a physical object that the victim reasonably believes is a dangerous weapon;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>suffocate, strangle, disfigure, or inflict serious physical injury on the victim or another in the course of committing the crime;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>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;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="4">
          <text>commit the crime while aided and abetted by another; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="5">
          <text>commit the crime in connection with a burglary in the first degree under § 6–202 of this article, a burglary in the second degree under § 6–203 of this article, or a burglary in the third degree under § 6–204 of this article;</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>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;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>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;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>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</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>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.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>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.</text>
  </level>
</section>
