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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2015

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A N   A C T

RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES - ELECTRONIC IMAGING DEVICES

     Introduced By: Senators Lynch, and Lombardi

     Date Introduced: March 05, 2015

     Referred To: Senate Judiciary

     It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

     SECTION 1. Section 11-64-1 of the General Laws in Chapter 11-64 entitled "Electronic

Imaging Devices" is hereby amended to read as follows:

     11-64-1. Definitions. -- (1) For the purposes of this section the following definitions

apply:

      (a) "Disseminate" means to make available by any means to any person.

      (b) "Imaging Device" means any electronic instrument capable of capturing, recording,

storing or transmitting visual images.

      (c) "Intimate areas" means the naked or undergarment clad genitals, pubic area, buttocks,

or any portion of the female breast below the top of the areola of a person which the person

intended to be protected from public view.

      (d) "Legal entity" means any partnership, firm, association, corporation or any agent or

servant thereof.

      (e) "Publish" means to:

      (i) Disseminate with the intent that such image or images be made available by any

means to any person or other legal entity;

      (ii) Disseminate with the intent such images be sold by another person or legal entity;

      (iii) Post, present, display, exhibit, circulate, advertise or allow access by any means, so

as to make an image or images available to the public; or

      (iv) Disseminate with the intent that an image or images be posted, presented, displayed,

exhibited, circulated, advertised or made accessible by any means, and to make such images

available to the public.

      (f) "Sell" means to disseminate to another person, or to publish, in exchange for

something of value.

     (g) "Sexually explicit conduct" means actual:

     (i) Graphic sexual intercourse, including genital-genital, oral-genital, anal-genital, or

oral-anal, or lascivious sexual intercourse where the genitals, or pubic area of any person is

exhibited;

     (ii) Bestiality;

     (iii) Masturbation; or

     (iv) Sadistic or masochistic abuse.

     SECTION 2. Chapter 11-64 of the General Laws entitled "Electronic Imaging Devices"

is hereby amended by adding thereto the following section:

     11-64-3. Unauthorized dissemination of indecent material. – (a) A person is guilty of

unauthorized dissemination of indecent material when such person uses an imaging device to

capture, record, or store visual images of another person eighteen (18) years of age or older

engaged in sexually explicit conduct or of the intimate areas of another person, with or without

that other person's knowledge and consent under circumstances in which that other person would

have a reasonable expectation of privacy and, thereafter, without the consent of the person or all

persons depicted in the visual image, intentionally disseminates, publishes, or sells such visual

image or images.

     (b) Constitutionally protected activity is not subject to the provisions of this section.

     (c) Those in violation of this section shall be guilty of a felony and subject to

imprisonment for not more than three (3) years, a fine of not more than three thousand dollars

($3,000), or both.

     (d) Those in violation of this section shall not be subject to sex offender registration

requirements set forth in § 11-37.1-1 et seq., entitled "Sexual Offender Registration and

Community Notification Act."

     (e) Nothing in this section shall be construed to impose liability on an interactive

computer service, as defined in 47 U.S.C. 230(f)(2), an information service, as defined in 47

U.S.C. 153, or telecommunications service, as defined in § 44-18-7.1, for content provided by

another person.

     SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon passage.

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EXPLANATION

BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

OF

A N   A C T

RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES - ELECTRONIC IMAGING DEVICES

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     This act would prohibit the dissemination, publication, or sale of visual images of another

person engaged in sexually explicit conduct, or the intimate areas of that person, without that

person's consent and under circumstances in which that person would have a reasonable

expectation of privacy.

     This act would take effect upon passage.

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