2013 Mississippi Code
Title 97 - CRIMES
Chapter 29 - CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC MORALS AND DECENCY
IN GENERAL
§ 97-29-63 - Photographing or filming another without permission where there is expectation of privacy; when vicitim is adult; when victim is child under sixteen


MS Code § 97-29-63 (2013) What's This?

(1) Any person who with lewd, licentious or indecent intent secretly photographs, films, videotapes, records or otherwise reproduces the image of another person without the permission of such person when such a person is located in a place where a person would intend to be in a state of undress and have a reasonable expectation of privacy, including, but not limited to, private dwellings or any facility, public or private, used as a restroom, bathroom, shower room, tanning booth, locker room, fitting room, dressing room or bedroom shall be guilty of a felony and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of Five Thousand Dollars ($ 5,000.00) or by imprisonment of not more than five (5) years in the custody of the Department of Corrections, or both.

(2) Where the person who is secretly photographed, filmed, videotaped or otherwise reproduced is a child under sixteen (16) years of age, a person who violates subsection (1) of this section shall be guilty of a felony and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of Five Thousand Dollars ($ 5,000.00) or by imprisonment of not more than ten (10) years in the custody of the Department of Corrections, or both.

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