Idaho State Statutes - Idaho Attorney Directory

A person is guilty of disseminating material harmful to minors when:
1. He knowingly gives or makes available to a minor or promotes or
possesses with intent to promote to minors, or he knowingly sells or loans to
a minor for monetary consideration:
(a) Any picture, photograph, drawing, sculpture, motion picture film, or
similar visual representation or image of a person or portion of the human
body which depicts nudity, sexual conduct or sado-masochistic abuse and
which is harmful to minors; or
(b) Any book, pamphlet, magazine, printed matter however reproduced, or
sound recording which contains any matter enumerated in paragraph (a)
hereof, or explicit and detailed verbal descriptions or narrative accounts
of sexual excitement, sexual conduct or sado-masochistic abuse and which,
taken as a whole, is harmful to minors; or
(c) Any other material harmful to minors.
2. With reference to a motion picture, show or other presentation which
depicts nudity, sexual conduct or sado-masochistic abuse, and which is harmful
to minors, he knowingly:
(a) Exhibits such motion picture, show or other presentation to a minor
for a monetary consideration; or
(b) Sells to a minor an admission ticket or pass to premises whereon
there is exhibited or to be exhibited such motion picture, show or other
presentation; or
(c) Admits a minor for a monetary consideration to premises whereon there
is exhibited or to be exhibited such motion picture, show or other
presentation; or
(d) Exhibits such motion picture, show or other presentation to a minor
not for a monetary consideration; or
(e) Gives without monetary consideration to a minor an admission ticket
or pass to premises where there is exhibited or to be exhibited such
motion picture, show, or other presentation.
Disseminating material harmful to minors is a misdemeanor punishable by
confinement in the county jail not to exceed one (1) year, or by a fine not to
exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both such fine and jail sentence.

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