SECOND REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 1612
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE BARTLE.
Read 1st time January 23, 2002, and 1000 copies ordered printed.
TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 568.020, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to incest, with a penalty provision.
Section A. Section 568.020, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 568.020, to read as follows:
568.020. 1. A person commits the crime of incest if he marries or purports to marry or engages in sexual intercourse or deviate sexual intercourse with a person he knows to be, without regard to legitimacy:
(1) His ancestor or descendant by blood or adoption; or
(2) His stepchild, while the marriage creating that relationship exists; or
(3) His brother or sister of the whole or half-blood; or
(4) His uncle, aunt, nephew or niece of the whole blood.
2. For purposes of this section:
(1) "Sexual intercourse" means any penetration, however slight, of the female sex organ by the male sex organ;
(2) "Deviate sexual intercourse" means any act of sexual gratification between persons not lawfully married to one another, involving the genitals of one person and the mouth, tongue or anus of another.
3. Incest is a class [D] B felony.
Missouri House of Representatives