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      21-3601.   Bigamy. (a) Bigamy is any of the following:

      (1)   Marriage within this state by any person who shall have another spouse living at the time of such marriage;

      (2)   marriage within this state by an unmarried person to a person known to such unmarried person to be the spouse of some other person;

      (3)   cohabitation within this state after marriage in another state or country under circumstances described in subsection (a)(1) or (a)(2).

      (b)   It shall be a defense to a charge of bigamy that the accused reasonably believed the prior marriage had been dissolved by death, divorce or annulment.

      (c)   Bigamy is a severity level 10, nonperson felony.

      History:   L. 1969, ch. 180, § 21-3601; L. 1992, ch. 239, § 87; L. 1993, ch. 291, § 54; July 1.