HOUSE BILL 60

56th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2024

INTRODUCED BY

Stefani Lord and John Block

 

 

 

 

 

AN ACT

RELATING TO CRIME; CREATING THE CRIMES OF CRIMINAL DESECRATION OF A DEAD HUMAN BODY, CRIMINAL SEXUAL CONTACT WITH A DEAD HUMAN BODY AND CRIMINAL SEXUAL PENETRATION OF A DEAD HUMAN BODY; PRESCRIBING PENALTIES.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

     SECTION 1. [NEW MATERIAL] CRIMINAL DESECRATION OF A DEAD HUMAN BODY--CRIMINAL SEXUAL CONTACT WITH A DEAD HUMAN BODY--CRIMINAL SEXUAL PENETRATION OF A DEAD HUMAN BODY.--

          A. Criminal desecration of a dead human body consists of the unlawful dismemberment, disfigurement, mutilation or burning of a dead human body or any unlawful act that causes a dead human body to be devoured or scattered. A person who commits criminal desecration of a dead human body is guilty of a fourth degree felony.

          B. Criminal sexual contact with a dead human body consists of the unlawful and intentional touching of the clothed or unclothed intimate parts of a dead human body or intentionally causing a dead human body to touch the intimate parts of another person. A person who commits criminal sexual contact with a dead human body is guilty of a third degree felony.

          C. Criminal sexual penetration of a dead human body consists of the unlawful and intentional causing of a dead human body to engage in sexual intercourse, cunnilingus, fellatio or anal intercourse or the causing of penetration, to any extent and with any object, of the genital or anal openings of a dead human body, whether or not there is any emission. A person who commits criminal sexual penetration of a dead human body is guilty of a second degree felony."

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