2015 New Hampshire Revised Statutes
Title XII - PUBLIC SAFETY AND WELFARE
Chapter 169-B - DELINQUENT CHILDREN
Section 169-B:41 - Intentional Contribution to Delinquency.

    169-B:41 Intentional Contribution to Delinquency. –
    I. Any parent or guardian or person having custody or control of a minor, or anyone else, who shall knowingly encourage, aid, cause, or abet, or connive at, or has knowingly or willfully done any act to produce, promote, or contribute to the delinquency of such minor, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. The court may release such person on probation, subject to such orders as it may make concerning future conduct tending to produce or contribute to such delinquency, or it may suspend sentence, or before trial, with such person's consent, it may allow the person to enter into a recognizance, in such penal sum as the court may fix, conditioned for the promotion of the future welfare of the minor, and the case may be placed on file.
    II. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph I, any parent, guardian or person having custody or control of a minor, or anyone else, who shall knowingly or wilfully, encourage, aid, cause or abet, or connive at, or has knowingly done any act to produce, promote or contribute to the utilization of a minor in any acts of sexual conduct, as defined in RSA 650:1, VI, in order to create obscene material, as defined in RSA 650:1, IV, of the minor engaged in such conduct, shall be guilty of:
       (a) A class B felony if such person has had no prior convictions in this state or another state for the conduct described in this paragraph;
       (b) A class A felony if such person has had one or more prior convictions in this state or another state for the conduct described in this paragraph.

Source. 1979, 361:2. 1983, 448:4. 1995, 302:23, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.