Title 9, Crimes and Corrections
48 chapters · 823 sections in this title.
9 GCA § 28.10 Prostitution Defined; Punishment Established;
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Definitions. (a) A person who engages in, or agrees to engage in, or offers to engage in, sexual penetration or sexual contact or in any sexual conduct or act with another person in return for a fee or in consideration of a pecuniary benefit commits the crime of prostitution. It …
9 GCA § 28.100 Illegal Use of a Computer or Telecommunications
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Device to Disseminate Prohibited Materials Involving a Minor- Sexting; Crime Defined and Punished. (a) A minor is guilty of an offense of Illegal Use of a Computer Telecommunications Device Involving a Minor, otherwise known as Sexting, if the minor, by use of a computer or any t…
9 GCA § 28.101 Illegal Use of a Computer or Telecommunications
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Device to Disseminate Prohibited Materials Involving a Minor- Sexting; Mandatory Distribution of Information Brochure about Sexting by Retail Stores Who Sell Cellular Telephone Equipment or Cellular Telephone Equipment Service Contracts. (a) Definitions. As used in this Section: …
9 GCA § 28.102 Unlawful Distribution of Images; Exceptions;
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Definitions; and Penalties. (a) It is unlawful for a person to intentionally disclose, or intentionally cause another person to disclose, including disclosing by electronic means, an image of another person who is identifiable from the image itself or from information displayed i…
9 GCA § 28.15 Loitering for the Purpose of Soliciting to Engage in
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Prostitution. (a) For the purposes of this section, public place means any street, sidewalk, bridge, alley or alleyway, plaza, park, driveway, parking lot or transportation facility or the doorways and entrance ways to any building which fronts on any of the aforesaid places, or …
9 GCA § 28.20 Promoting Prostitution; Punishment ; Defense
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(a) A person is guilty of promoting prostitution who: (1) owns, controls, manages, supervises or otherwise keeps, alone or in association with others, a place of prostitution or a prostitution enterprise; or (2) knowingly solicits, induces or causes a person to commit or engage i…
9 GCA § 28.25 Abetting Prostitution; Punishment
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(a) A person is guilty of abetting prostitution who: (1) solicits a person to patronize a prostitute; or (2) procures a prostitute for himself, herself or another person; or (3) knowingly and for the purpose of prostitution, transports any person into, out of or within Guam, or w…
9 GCA § 28.30 Compelling Prostitution; Punishment
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(a) A person is guilty of compelling prostitution who: (1) by force, threat or duress compels another to engage in, promote or abet prostitution; or (2) causes or aids a person under the age of eighteen (18) to commit or engage in, promote or abet prostitution; or (3) causes or a…
9 GCA § 28.35 Evidence of Place and Persons Admissible
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On the issue whether a premise is a place of prostitution, its general repute and the repute of the persons who reside in or frequent the place shall be admissible evidence. NOTE: The amendments made by P.L. 22-158 to this Article take effect 90 days following December 30, 1994. …
9 GCA § 28.40 Definitions
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As used in this Article: (a) Material means any picture, drawing, photograph, motion picture or pictorial representation, or any statue or other figure, or any mechanical, chemical or electrical reproduction, or anything which is or may be used as a means of communication (other …
9 GCA § 28.45 Obscenity: Standards
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[Repealed.] SOURCE: CF. G.P.C. § 311; M.P.C. § 251.4(1); Cal. § 1750 (T.D. 2 1968); *Cal. § 962, 970 (1971); Mass. Ch. 272, § 6. Repealed by P.L. 16-84.
9 GCA § 28.49 Same: Distribution
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Every person who knowingly sends or causes to be sent, or who in Guam possesses, prepares, publishes, shows, prints or who offers to distribute, distributes or exhibits to another any obscene material, when such act or acts are public or for commercial gain, is guilty of a misdem…
9 GCA § 28.50 Same: Participation in
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Every person who knowingly engages or participates in, manages, produces, sponsors, presents or exhibits any obscene performance which is public or for commercial gain is guilty of a misdemeanor. SOURCE: G.P.C. § 311(2-7); M.P.C. § 251 4(2); *Cal. § 1751 (T.D.2 1968); Cal. §§ 964…
9 GCA § 28.51 Same: Employment of Minor
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A person is guilty of a felony of the third degree if he knowingly or recklessly employs or uses a minor under the age of sixteen (16) years to do or assist in doing any of the acts described in §§ 28.49 or 28.50 of this Chapter. SOURCE: Added by P.L. 16-84.
9 GCA § 28.52 Use of One's Child in Obscene Acts
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A person is guilty of a felony of the first degree if while having custody or control of any child under the age of sixteen (16) years, he shall knowingly permit that child to be used in or be a party to any material or performance that is obscene. SOURCE: Added by P.L. 16-84.
9 GCA § 28.55 Defenses
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It shall be an affirmative defense in a prosecution under this Article for the defendant to show: (a) That the distribution was made to the recipient by a bona fide school, museum or public library or by an employee of such organization acting in the course of his employment or o…
9 GCA § 28.60 Disposition of Obscene Material
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When the conviction of any person for the commission of any offense defined in § 28.50 becomes final, copies of any obscene material described in the indictment, information or complaint or admitted in evidence which were taken from the possession of the defendant and which are i…
9 GCA § 28.65 Indecent Exposure; Defined & Punished
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(a) A person commits the crime of indecent exposure if he or she intentionally exposes their genitals or performs any other lewd act under circumstances in which their conduct is likely to be observed by any person who would be offended or alarmed. (b) Except as provided below, i…
9 GCA § 28.70 Invasion of Privacy or Criminal Voyeurism and
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Video Voyeurism; Penalty; Definitions. (a) A person commits a misdemeanor if, except in the execution of a public duty or as authorized by law, the person intentionally or knowingly: (1) trespasses on property for the purpose of subjecting anyone to eavesdropping or other surveil…
9 GCA § 28.71 Obscene Telephone Service Prohibited; Penalty
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(a) It is unlawful for any telephone subscriber to sell, offer for sale, or transmit over telephone lines any obscene material or message. (b) Any person in violation of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor. SOURCE: Added by P.L. 20-167:1 (May 11, 1990) as § 70.40.1. Renumbere…
9 GCA § 28.72 Certain Obscene Telephone Communications
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Prohibited; Penalty. (a) For purposes of this section and of § 28.71 of this Title 9, the term “obscene” shall mean that: (1) The average person, applying contemporary community standards would find that the communication, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest; and (…
9 GCA § 28.80 Photography of Minors' Sexual Acts: Punished
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A person commits a felony of the first degree if he knowingly: (a) sells or offers for sale publications, pictures or films that depict minors under 16 years of age performing sexual acts; or (b) photographs minors under 16 years of age to engaging [sic] sexual acts. SOURCE: Adde…
9 GCA § 28.90 Obscene, Anonymous, Harassing and Threatening
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Communications by Computer; Defined and Punished. (a) It is unlawful for any person, with the intent to harass or abuse another person, to use a computer to: (1) make contact via the internet with another without disclosing his or her identity with the intent to harass or abuse; …