1997 WISCONSIN ACT 82
An Act to renumber 948.11 (1) (a); to amend 948.11 (title), 948.11 (1) (b) (intro.), 948.11 (1) (b) 2., 948.11 (2) (a) and 948.11 (2) (b); and to create 948.11 (1) (ag), 948.11 (1) (bm) and 948.11 (2) (am) of the statutes; relating to: exposing a child to harmful descriptions or narrations and providing a penalty.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
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Section 1
. 948.11 (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
948.11 (title) Exposing a child to harmful material or harmful descriptions or narrations.
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Section 2
. 948.11 (1) (a) of the statutes is renumbered 948.11 (1) (ar).
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Section 3
. 948.11 (1) (ag) of the statutes is created to read:
948.11 (1) (ag) “Harmful description or narrative account" means any explicit and detailed description or narrative account of sexual excitement, sexually explicit conduct, sadomasochistic abuse, physical torture or brutality that, taken as a whole, is harmful to children.
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Section 4
. 948.11 (1) (b) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
948.11 (1) (b) (intro.) “Harmful to children" means that quality of any description, narrative account or representation, in whatever form, of nudity, sexually explicit conduct, sexual excitement, sadomasochistic abuse, physical torture or brutality, when it:
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Section 5
. 948.11 (1) (b) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
948.11 (1) (b) 2. Is patently offensive to prevailing standards in the adult community as a whole with respect to what is suitable material for children; and
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Section 6
. 948.11 (1) (bm) of the statutes is created to read:
948.11 (1) (bm) “Knowledge of the nature of the description or narrative account" means knowledge of the character and content of a harmful description or narrative account.
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Section 7
. 948.11 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
948.11 (2) (a) Whoever, with knowledge of the nature of the material, sells, rents, exhibits, transfers or loans to a child any harmful material which is harmful to children, with or without monetary consideration, is guilty of a Class E felony.
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Section 8
. 948.11 (2) (am) of the statutes is created to read:
948.11 (2) (am) Any person who has attained the age of 17 and who, with knowledge of the nature of the description or narrative account, verbally communicates, by any means, a harmful description or narrative account to a child, with or without monetary consideration, is guilty of a Class E felony.
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Section 9
. 948.11 (2) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
948.11 (2) (b) Whoever, with knowledge of the nature of the material, possesses harmful material
which is harmful to children with the intent to sell, rent, exhibit, transfer or loan the material to a child is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.
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Section 10
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Initial applicability.
(1) This act first applies to offenses occurring on the effective date of this subsection.