§20915 — Title 34 Navy | U.S. Code

Summary

You must keep your sex-offender registration current for a set time unless you earn a shorter period. The required lengths are: Tier I — 15 years; Tier II — 25 years; Tier III — life. Time spent in jail, prison, or civil commitment does not count toward those totals. You can get a shorter time if you keep a clean record and finish supervision and treatment. To qualify you must have no convictions for crimes punishable by more than 1 year, no new sex-offense convictions, complete any probation, parole, or supervised release, and finish a certified sex-offender treatment program. A Tier I offender who stays clean for 10 years gets a 5-year reduction (15 years becomes 10). A Tier III person who was adjudicated delinquent for the offense and stays clean for 25 years can have the life requirement reduced to that 25-year period.

Title 34, §20915

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(a)A sex offender shall keep the registration current for the full registration period (excluding any time the sex offender is in custody or civilly committed) unless the offender is allowed a reduction under subsection (b). The full registration period is—

(1)15 years, if the offender is a tier I sex offender;

(2)25 years, if the offender is a tier II sex offender; and

(3)the life of the offender, if the offender is a tier III sex offender.

(b)(1)The full registration period shall be reduced as described in paragraph (3) for a sex offender who maintains a clean record for the period described in paragraph (2) by—

(A)not being convicted of any offense for which imprisonment for more than 1 year may be imposed;

(B)not being convicted of any sex offense;

(C)successfully completing any periods of supervised release, probation, and parole; and

(D)successfully completing of 11 So in original. The word “of” probably should not appear. an appropriate sex offender treatment program certified by a jurisdiction or by the Attorney General.

(2)In the case of—

(A)a tier I sex offender, the period during which the clean record shall be maintained is 10 years; and

(B)a tier III sex offender adjudicated delinquent for the offense which required registration in a sex registry under this subchapter, the period during which the clean record shall be maintained is 25 years.

(3)In the case of—

(A)a tier I sex offender, the reduction is 5 years;

(B)a tier III sex offender adjudicated delinquent, the reduction is from life to that period for which the clean record under paragraph (2) is maintained.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This subchapter, referred to in subsec. (b)(2)(B), was in the original “this title”, meaning title I of Pub. L. 109–248, July 27, 2006, 120 Stat. 590, known as the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act. For complete classification of title I to the Code, see

Short Title

of 2006 Act note set out under section 10101 of this title and Tables. Codification Section was formerly classified to section 16915 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

§20915 Duration of Registration Requirement