2013 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 53a - Penal Code
Chapter 952 - Penal Code: Offenses
Section 53a-196 - Obscenity as to minors: Class D felony.

(a) A person is guilty of obscenity as to minors when he knowingly promotes to a minor, for monetary consideration, any material or performance which is obscene as to minors.

(b) For purposes of this section, “knowingly” means having general knowledge of or reason to know or a belief or ground for belief which warrants further inspection or inquiry as to (1) the character and content of any material or performance which is reasonably susceptible of examination by such person and (2) the age of the minor.

(c) In any prosecution for obscenity as to minors, it shall be an affirmative defense that the defendant made (1) a reasonable mistake as to age, and (2) a reasonable bona fide attempt to ascertain the true age of such minor, by examining a draft card, driver’s license, birth certificate or other official or apparently official document, exhibited by such minor, purporting to establish that such minor was seventeen years of age or older.

(d) Obscenity as to minors is a class D felony.

(1969, P.A. 828, S. 198; P.A. 85-496, S. 1; P.A. 92-260, S. 78.)

History: P.A. 85-496 increased penalty from class A misdemeanor to class D felony; P.A. 92-260 made a technical change in Subsec. (c).

Subsec. (a):

Cited. 36 CS 352.