2011 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 14 — Criminal law
RS 14:106.1 — Promotion or wholesale promotion of obscene devices

§106.1. Promotion or wholesale promotion of obscene devices

A. For the purposes of this Section, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly requires otherwise:

(1) "Obscene device" means a device, including an artificial penis or artificial vagina, which is designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs.

(2) "Promote" means to manufacture, issue, sell, give, provide, lend, mail, deliver, transfer, transmit, distribute, circulate, disseminate, present, or exhibit, including the offer or agreement to do any of these things, for the purpose of sale or resale.

B. No person shall knowingly and intentionally promote an obscene device.

C.(1) On a first conviction, whoever commits the crime of promoting an obscene device shall be fined not less than one thousand dollars nor more than two thousand five hundred dollars or imprisoned with or without hard labor for not less than six months nor more than three years, or both.

(2) On a second conviction, the offender shall be imprisoned with or without hard labor for not less than six months nor more than three years, and in addition may be fined not less than two thousand five hundred dollars nor more than five thousand dollars.

Acts 1985, No. 928, §1; Acts 2001, No. 403, §1, eff. June 15, 2001.