Idaho § 18-5601 - DEFINITIONS
Full text of Idaho Idaho Statutes § 18-5601 — DEFINITIONS, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 18-5601. DEFINITIONS
As used in this chapter:
(1) "Benefits of such proceeds" includes but is not limited to any real or personal property obtained with or by use of proceeds as defined in this chapter; any debt, rent, or other financial obligation paid with proceeds as defined in this chapter; and any service obtained in exchange for proceeds as defined in this chapter.
(2) "Child" means a person under eighteen (18) years of age.
(3) "Commercial sexual activity" means the exchange, or the attempted exchange, of sexual contact for a fee.
(4) "Fee" means any money, service, item of real or personal property, contraband, or thing of value.
(5) "Intimate body parts" includes human genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or breasts.
(6) "Proceeds" means any money, services, item of real or personal property, contraband, or thing of value paid or exchanged for sexual contact.
(7) "Sexual contact" means any touching of the intimate body parts of another person for the purpose of arousing or gratifying the sexual desire of either party, including but not limited to sexual intercourse, oral-genital contact, manual-genital contact, genital-anal contact, oral-anal contact, and other physical-genital contact.
[18-5601, added 2024, ch. 147, sec. 3, p. 559.]
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Section 18-5601 ("DEFINITIONS") is part of the Idaho Statutes, the codified statutory law of Idaho. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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