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1997 SESSION


CHAPTER 643
An Act to amend and reenact § 18.2-67.4 of the Code of Virginia, relating to sexual battery; penalty.
[S 939]
Approved March 21, 1997

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 18.2-67.4 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 18.2-67.4. Sexual battery.

A. An accused shall be guilty of sexual battery if he or she sexually abuses the complaining witness against the will of the complaining witness, by force, threat or, intimidation or ruse, or through the use of the complaining witness's mental incapacity or physical helplessness.

B. Sexual battery is a Class 1 misdemeanor.