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2004 SESSION
041144828Be 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 (i) carnally knows in any manner any brute animal, or (ii) 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, except as provided in subsection B. The provisions of clause (ii) of this subsection shall not apply where all persons are consenting adults who are not in a public place and who are not aiding, abetting, procuring, engaging in or performing any act in furtherance of prostitution.
B. 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 is guilty of a Class 5 felony. However, if a parent or
grandparent who commits any such act with his child or grandchild and such
child or grandchild is at least thirteen 13 but less than eighteen 18 years
of age at the time of the offense, such parent or grandparent shall be is
guilty of a Class 3 felony.