2011 Missouri Revised Statutes
TITLE XXXVIII CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT; PEACE OFFICERS AND PUBLIC DEFENDERS
Chapter 573 Pornography and Related Offenses
Section 573.020. Promoting obscenity in the first degree.
Promoting obscenity in the first degree.
573.020. 1. A person commits the crime of promoting obscenity in the first degree if:
(1) He or she wholesale promotes or possesses with the purpose to wholesale promote any obscene material; or
(2) He or she wholesale promotes for minors or possesses with the purpose to wholesale promote for minors any material pornographic for minors; or
(3) He or she promotes, wholesale promotes or possesses with the purpose to wholesale promote for minors material that is pornographic for minors via computer, Internet or computer network if the person made the matter available to a specific individual known by the defendant to be a minor.
2. Promoting obscenity in the first degree is a class D felony.
(L. 1977 S.B. 60, A.L. 1987 H.B. 113, et al., A.L. 2000 S.B. 757 & 602, A.L. 2009 H.B. 62)
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