Title 18, CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS

18-1353A. Threats against state officials of the executive, legislative or judicial branch or elected officials of a county or city. Whoever knowingly and willfully deposits for conveyance in the mail or for a delivery from any post office or by any letter carrier, any letter, pa…

18-1354. Compensation for past official behavior. A person commits a misdemeanor if he solicits, accepts, or agrees to accept any pecuniary benefit as compensation for having as public servant, given a decision, opinion, recommendation or vote favorable to another, or for having …

18-1355. Retaliation for past official action. A person commits a misdemeanor if he harms another by any unlawful acts in retaliation for anything lawfully done by the latter in the capacity of public servant.

18-1356. Gifts to public servants by persons subject to their jurisdiction. (1) Regulatory and law enforcement officials. No public servant in any department or agency exercising regulatory functions, or conducting inspections or investigations, or carrying on civil or criminal l…

18-1357. Compensating public servant for assisting private interests in relation to matters before him. (1) Receiving compensation. A public servant commits a misdemeanor if he solicits, accepts or agrees to accept compensation for advice or other assistance in preparing or promo…

18-1358. Selling political indorsement — Special influence. (1) Selling political indorsement. A person commits a misdemeanor if he solicits, receives, agrees to receive, or agrees that any political party or other person shall receive any pecuniary benefit as consideration for a…

18-1359. Using public position for personal gain. (1) No public servant shall: (a) Without the specific authorization of the governmental entity for which he serves, use public funds or property to obtain a pecuniary benefit for himself. (b) Solicit, accept or receive a pecuniary…

18-1360. Penalties. Any public servant who violates the provisions of this chapter, unless otherwise provided, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and may be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by incarceration in the county jail for a period not excee…

18-1361. Self-interested contracts — Exception. Where there are less than three (3) suppliers of a good or a service within a fifteen (15) mile radius of where the good or service is to be provided, it shall not constitute a violation of the provisions of subsection (1) (d) or (e…

18-1361A. Noncompensated appointed public servant — Relatives of public servant — Exception. When a person is a public servant by reason of his appointment to a governmental entity board for which the person receives no salary or fees for his service on said board, it shall not c…

18-1362. Cause of action. A prosecuting attorney or the attorney general may bring an action in the district court of the county in which a public servant resides to enjoin a violation of the provisions of this chapter and to require the public servant to make restitution to the …

18-1401. Burglary defined. Every person who enters any house, room, apartment, tenement, store, shop, warehouse, mill, barn, stable, outhouse, or a building, tent, vessel, vehicle, trailer, airplane, or railroad car with intent to commit any theft or any felony is guilty of burgl…

18-1401A. commercial burglary defined. Any person who commits a burglary as defined in section 18-1401, Idaho Code, with the intent to commit theft and the theft is from a commercial retailer during business hours and the amount of the theft is under three hundred dollars ($300) …

18-1403. Punishment for burglary. Burglary is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for not less than one (1) nor more than ten (10) years.

18-1405. Burglary with explosives. Any person who with intent to commit crime breaks and enters any building whether inhabited or not, and opens or attempts to open any vault, safe, or other secure place within said building by use of nitroglycerin, dynamite, gunpowder or any oth…

18-1406. Possession of burglarious instruments. Every person having upon him, or in his possession, a picklock, crow, key, bit, or other instrument or tool, with intent feloniously to break or enter into any building or who shall knowingly make or alter, or shall attempt to make …

18-1501. Injury to children. (1) Any person who, under circumstances or conditions likely to produce great bodily harm or death, willfully causes or permits any child to suffer, or inflicts thereon unjustifiable physical pain or mental suffering, or having the care or custody of …

18-1502. Beer, wine or other alcohol age violations — Fines. (a) Except as provided in subsection (e) of this section, whenever a person is in violation, on the basis of his age, of any federal, state, or municipal law or ordinance pertaining to the use, possession, procurement, …

18-1502B. Possession of inhalants by minors. Whenever a person under the age of eighteen (18) years is in possession and uses an aerosol spray product or other inhalant, that is not used pursuant to the instructions or prescription of a licensed health care provider or that is no…

18-1505. Abuse, exploitation or neglect of a vulnerable adult. (1) Any person who abuses or neglects a vulnerable adult under circumstances likely to produce great bodily harm or death is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than ten (10) years and not more …

18-1505A. Abandoning a vulnerable adult. (1) Any person who abandons a vulnerable adult, as that term is defined in section 18-1505, Idaho Code, in deliberate disregard of the vulnerable adult’s safety or welfare, regardless of whether the vulnerable adult suffered physical harm …

18-1505B. Sexual abuse and exploitation of a vulnerable adult. (1) It is a felony for any person, with the intent of arousing, appealing to or gratifying the lust, passion or sexual desires of such person, a vulnerable adult or a third party, to: (a) Commit any lewd or lascivious…

18-1506. Sexual abuse of a child under the age of sixteen years. (1) It is a felony for any person eighteen (18) years of age or older, with the intent to gratify the lust, passions, or sexual desire of the actor, minor child or third party, to: (a) Solicit a minor child under th…

18-1506A. Ritualized abuse of a child — Exclusions — Penalties — Definition. (1) A person is guilty of a felony when he commits any of the following acts with, upon, or in the presence of a child as part of a ceremony, rite or any similar observance: (a) Actually or in simulation…

18-1506B. female genital mutilation of a child — exclusions — penalties — definition. (1) Except as provided in subsection (4) of this section, whoever knowingly circumcises, excises, or infibulates the whole or any part of the labia majora, labia minora, or clitoris of a child s…

18-1506C. VULNERABLE CHILD PROTECTION. (1) This section shall be known and may be cited as the "Vulnerable Child Protection Act." (2) As used in this section: (a) "Child" means any person under eighteen (18) years of age; and (b) "Sex" is as defined in section 73-114, Idaho Code.…

18-1507. definitions — Sexual exploitation of a child — penalties. (1) As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires: (a) "Bestiality" means a sexual connection in any manner between a human being and any animal. (b) "Child" means a person who is less than eighte…

18-1507A. Sexual exploitation of a child by electronic means. (1) A minor child who, without being induced by coercion, manipulation or fraud, creates or causes to be created any photographic, electronic or video content of said minor child that would be characterized under any o…

18-1507B. criminal forfeiture. (1) Any person who enters a plea of guilty or is convicted of a felony violation of section 18-1507, 18-1507A, 18-1509, or 18-1509A, Idaho Code, no matter the form of the judgment or order withholding judgment, shall forfeit to the state of Idaho: (…

18-1507C. VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF THE SEXUAL ABUSE OF CHILDREN. (1) A person commits a felony if he knowingly produces, distributes, receives, possesses, or accesses a visual depiction, including a video or image created using generative AI or machine learning, that: (a) Depict…

18-1508. Lewd conduct with minor child under sixteen. Any person who shall commit any lewd or lascivious act or acts upon or with the body or any part or member thereof of a minor child under the age of sixteen (16) years, including but not limited to, genital-genital contact, or…

18-1508A. Sexual battery of a minor child sixteen or seventeen years of age — Penalty. (1) It is a felony for any person at least five (5) years of age older than a minor child who is sixteen (16) or seventeen (17) years of age, who, with the intent of arousing, appealing to or g…

18-1508B. AGGRAVATED LEWD CONDUCT WITH MINOR CHILD UNDER SIXTEEN. [effective until January 1, 2027] Any person eighteen (18) years of age or older who commits any lewd or lascivious act or acts on or with the body or any part or member thereof of a minor child under sixteen (16) …

18-1508C. AGGRAVATED LEWD CONDUCT WITH MINOR CHILD TWELVE OR UNDER. [effective until January 1, 2027] Any person eighteen (18) years of age or older who commits any lewd or lascivious act or acts on or with the body or any part or member thereof of a minor child twelve (12) years…

18-1508D. punishment for AGGRAVATED LEWD CONDUCT WITH MINOR CHILD TWELVE OR UNDER. Subject to the provisions of sections 19-2515 and 19-2515A, Idaho Code, every person eighteen (18) years of age or older guilty of aggravated lewd conduct with a minor child twelve (12) years of ag…

18-1508E. sex offender registration — term of confinement. Any person convicted of an offense as provided in section 18-1508, 18-1508B, or 18-1508C, Idaho Code, requiring sex offender registration as set forth in section 18-8304, Idaho Code, and who is ordered to a fixed minimum …

18-1509. Enticing of children. (1) A person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor if that person attempts to persuade, or persuades, whether by words or actions or both, a minor child under the age of sixteen (16) years to either: (a) Leave the child’s home or school; or (b) Enter a v…

18-1509A. Enticing a child through use of the internet or other communication device — Penalties — Jurisdiction. (1) A person eighteen (18) years of age or older shall be guilty of a felony if such person knowingly uses the internet or any device that provides transmission of mes…

18-1510. Providing shelter to runaway children. (1) A person who knowingly or intentionally provides housing or other accommodations to a child seventeen (17) years of age or younger without the authority of: (a) the custodial parent or guardian of the child; (b) the state of Ida…

18-1511. Sale or barter of child for adoption or other purpose penalized — Allowed expenses. (1) Any person or persons who shall sell or barter any child for adoption or for any other purpose shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction shall be punished by imprisonment in th…

18-1512. Medical bills payment for child to be adopted or mother an exception. Paying of medical bills, either for a child to be adopted or for the mother of such child, shall not be considered a violation of this act.

18-1512A. Advertising for adoption — Prohibited acts. (1) Unless the context clearly requires otherwise in this section, "advertisement" means communication by newspaper, radio, television, handbills, placards or other print, broadcast or the electronic medium. (2) No person or e…

18-1513. Obscene materials — Dissemination to minors — Policy. It is hereby declared to be the policy of the legislature to restrain the distribution, promotion, or dissemination of obscene material, or of material harmful to minors, or the performance of obscene performances, or…

18-1514. Obscene materials — Definitions. The following definitions are applicable to this act: (1) "Adolescent minor" means any person thirteen (13) years of age or older but less than eighteen (18) years of age. (2) "Minor" means any person less than eighteen (18) years of age.…

18-1515. Disseminating material harmful to minors — Defined — Penalty. A person is guilty of disseminating material harmful to minors when: 1. He knowingly gives or makes available to a minor or promotes or possesses with intent to promote to minors or he knowingly sells or loans…

18-1516. Misrepresentations — Parenthood or age — Misdemeanor. A person is guilty of a misdemeanor when: 1. He knowingly misrepresents that he is a parent or guardian of a minor for the purpose of obtaining admission of any minor to any motion picture, show, or other presentation…