SDLRC - 2021 House Bill 1204 - SD Legislature revise criminal provisions regarding certain visual recordings or photographic devices.

2021 South Dakota Legislature

House Bill 1204

ENROLLED

An Act

ENTITLED An Act to revise criminal provisions regarding certain visual recordings or photographic devices.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota:

Section 1. That   22-21-4 be AMENDED.

22-21-4. Record--Privacy--Misdemeanor--Felony.

No person may:

(1) Use any device to photograph or visually record any other person without clothing or under or through the clothing, or with another person depicted in a sexual manner, for the purpose of viewing the body of, or the undergarments worn by, that other person, without the consent or knowledge of that other person, with the intent to self-gratify, to harass, or embarrass and invade the privacy of that other person, under circumstances in which the other person has a reasonable expectation of privacy; or

(2) Use, disclose, or disseminate, by any means, any recording or photograph in violation of subdivision (1), in order to self-gratify, to harass, or to embarrass and invade the privacy of that other person.

A violation of this section is a Class 1 misdemeanor. However, a violation of this section is a Class 6 felony if the victim is seventeen years of age or younger and the perpetrator is at least twenty-one years of age at the time the photograph or recording is made.

An Act to revise criminal provisions regarding certain visual recordings or photographic devices.

I certify that the attached Act originated in the:

House as Bill No. 1204

Chief Clerk

Speaker of the House

Attest:

Chief Clerk

President of the Senate

Attest:

Secretary of the Senate

House Bill No. 1204

File No. ____

Chapter No. ______

Received at this Executive Office

this _____ day of _____________,

2021 at ____________M.

By

for the Governor

The attached Act is hereby

approved this ________ day of

______________, A.D., 2021

Governor

STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA,

ss.

Office of the Secretary of State

Filed ____________, 2021

at _________ o'clock __M.

Secretary of State

By

Asst. Secretary of State

Statutes affected:
Introduced, 02/02/2021: 22-21-4
Enrolled: 22-21-4