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<section article="gcr" article_name="Criminal Law" number="3-315" 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 engage in a continuing course of conduct which includes three or more acts that would constitute violations of § 3–303, § 3–304, or § 3–307 of this subtitle, or violations of § 3–305 or § 3–306 of this subtitle as the sections existed before October 1, 2017, over a period of 90 days or more, with a victim who is under the age of 14 years at any time during the course of conduct.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A person who violates this section is guilty of a felony and on conviction is subject to imprisonment not exceeding 30 years.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A sentence imposed under this section may be separate from and consecutive to or concurrent with a sentence under § 3–602 of this title.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>In determining whether the required number of acts occurred in violation of this section, the trier of fact:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>must determine only that the required number of acts occurred; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>need not determine which acts constitute the required number of acts.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A person may not be charged with a violation of § 3–303, § 3–304, or § 3–307 of this subtitle involving the same victim in the same proceeding as a violation of this section unless the other violation charged occurred outside the time period charged under this section.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A person may not be charged with a violation of § 3–303, § 3–304, or § 3–307 of this subtitle involving the same victim unless the violation charged occurred outside the time period charged under this section.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>For purposes of prosecution under this section, violations of subsection (a) of this section that occur in separate periods of 90 days or more shall be considered separate violations.</text>
  </level>
</section>
