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2000 SESSION
005223696Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 18.2-361 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 18.2-361. Crimes against nature.
A. If any person carnally knows in any manner any brute animal, or carnally
knows any male or female person by the anus or by or with the mouth, or
voluntarily submits to such carnal knowledge, he or she shall be guilty of a Class
6 felony 4 misdemeanor, except as provided in subsection B. If any person
carnally knows any male or female person under eighteen years of age by the
anus or by the mouth, or if any person voluntarily submits to such carnal
knowledge with a person under eighteen years of age, he shall be guilty of a
Class 6 felony, except as provided in subsection B.
B. Any Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection A, any person who carnally
knows by the anus or by or with the mouth his daughter or granddaughter, son or grandson, brother or
sister, or father or mother shall be guilty of a Class 5 felony. However, if a parent or grandparent
commits any such act with his child or grandchild and such child or grandchild
is at least thirteen but less than eighteen years of age at the time of the
offense, such parent or grandparent shall be guilty of a Class 3 felony.
C. If any person carnally knows in any manner any brute animal he shall be guilty of a Class 6 felony.