H.B. 135 Enrolled

CHILD PORNOGRAPHY AMENDMENTS
2001 GENERAL SESSION
STATE OF UTAH
Sponsor: Katherine M. Bryson
This act modifies provisions of the Utah Criminal Code relating to the sexual exploitation
of children. The act defines terms related to child pornography. The act modifies the crime
related to sexual exploitation of a minor. The act also makes technical changes.
This act affects sections of Utah Code Annotated 1953 as follows:
AMENDS:
76-5a-2, as last amended by Chapter 226, Laws of Utah 1985
76-5a-3, as last amended by Chapter 128, Laws of Utah 2000
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
Section 1. Section 76-5a-2 is amended to read:
76-5a-2. Definitions.
As used in this chapter:
(1) "Child pornography" means any visual depiction, including any live performance,
photograph, film, video, picture, or computer or computer-generated image or picture, whether
made or produced by electronic, mechanical, or other means, of sexually explicit conduct, where:
(a) the production of the visual depiction involves the use of a minor engaging in sexually
explicit conduct;
(b) the visual depiction is of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct; or
(c) the visual depiction has been created, adapted, or modified to appear that an
identifiable minor is engaging in sexually explicit conduct.
[(1)] (2) "Distribute" means the selling, exhibiting, displaying, wholesaling, retailing,
providing, giving, granting admission to, or otherwise transferring or presenting [material or live
performances] child pornography with or without consideration.
(3) "Identifiable minor":
(a) means a person:
(i) (A) who was a minor at the time the visual depiction was created, adapted, or modified;

or
(B) whose image as a minor was used in creating, adapting, or modifying the visual
depiction; and
(ii) who is recognizable as an actual person by the person's face, likeness, or other
distinguishing characteristic, such as a birthmark, or other recognizable feature; and
(b) does not require proof of the actual identity of the identifiable minor.
[(2)] (4) "Live performance" means any act, play, dance, pantomime, song, or other activity
performed by live actors in person.
[(3) "Material" means any visual representation including photographs, motion pictures,
slides, videotapes, or other pictorial representations produced or recorded by any mechanical,
chemical, photographic, or electrical means and includes undeveloped photographs, negatives, or
other latent representational objects.]
[(4)] (5) "Minor" means a person younger than 18 years of age.
[(5) "Nude] (6) "Nudity or [partially nude] partial nudity" means any state of dress or
undress in which the human genitals, pubic region, buttocks, or the female breast, at a point below
the top of the areola, is less than completely and opaquely covered.
[(6)] (7) "Produce" means the photographing, filming, taping, directing, producing, creating,
designing, or composing of [material or live performances] child pornography or the securing or
hiring of persons to engage in the production of [material or live performances] child pornography.
[(7) "Sexual] (8) "Sexually explicit conduct" means [and includes the following acts,
whether actual or simulated, regardless of the gender of the participants or their state of dress] actual
or simulated:
(a) sexual intercourse [or deviate sexual intercourse], including genital-genital, oral-genital,
anal-genital, or oral-anal, whether between persons of the same or opposite sex;
(b) masturbation;
(c) [sodomy or] bestiality;
(d) [sadomasochistic activities] sadistic or masochistic activities;
(e) lascivious exhibition of the genitals or pubic area of any person;

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(f) the visual depiction of nudity or partial nudity for the purpose of causing sexual arousal
of any person;
[(e)] (g) the fondling or touching [for purpose of sexual arousal] of the genitals, pubic
region, buttocks, or female breast; or
[(f)] (h) the explicit representation of the defecation or urination functions.
[(8)] (9) "Simulated [sexual] sexually explicit conduct" means a feigned or pretended act of
[sexual] sexually explicit conduct which duplicates, within the perception of an average person, the
appearance of an actual act of [sexual] sexually explicit conduct.
Section 2. Section 76-5a-3 is amended to read:
76-5a-3. Sexual exploitation of a minor -- Offenses.
(1) A person is guilty of sexual exploitation of a minor:
(a) when [he] the person knowingly produces, distributes, possesses, or possesses with intent
to distribute, [material or a live performance depicting:] child pornography; or
[(i) a nude or partially nude minor for the purpose of causing sexual arousal of any person;
or]
[(ii) any minor's engagement in sexual conduct alone or with another person; or]
(b) if [he] the person is a minor's parent or legal guardian and knowingly consents to or
permits that minor to be sexually exploited under Subsection (1)(a) [above].
(2) Sexual exploitation of a minor is a felony of the second degree.
(3) It is a separate offense under this section:
(a) for each minor depicted, and if more than one minor is depicted in the [same material or
live performance] child pornography in violation of this section, the depiction of each individual
minor in the [material or live performance] child pornography is a separate offense; and
(b) each time the same minor is depicted in different [material; and] child pornography.
[(c) each time the same minor is depicted in a separate live performance.]
(4) It is an affirmative defense to a charge of violating this section that no person under 18
years of age was actually depicted in the visual depiction or used in producing or advertising the
visual depiction.

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