{"data":{"id":"us-md/md.-code-criminal-law-3-307","jurisdiction":"us-md","citation":"Md. Code, Criminal Law § 3–307","heading":"","body":"(a) A person may not:\n(1) (i) engage in sexual contact with another without the consent of the other; and\n(ii) 1. employ or display a dangerous weapon, or a physical object that the victim reasonably believes is a dangerous weapon;\n2. suffocate, strangle, disfigure, or inflict serious physical injury on the victim or another in the course of committing the crime;\n3. threaten, or place the victim in fear, that the victim, or an individual known to the victim, imminently will be subject to death, suffocation, strangulation, disfigurement, serious physical injury, or kidnapping; or\n4. commit the crime while aided and abetted by another;\n(2) engage in sexual contact with another if the victim is a substantially cognitively impaired individual, a mentally incapacitated individual, or a physically helpless individual, and the person performing the act knows or reasonably should know the victim is a substantially cognitively impaired individual, a mentally incapacitated individual, or a physically helpless individual;\n(3) engage in sexual contact with another if the victim is under the age of 14 years, and the person performing the sexual contact is at least 4 years older than the victim;\n(4) engage in a sexual act with another if the victim is 14 or 15 years old, and the person performing the sexual act is at least 21 years old; or\n(5) engage in vaginal intercourse with another if the victim is 14 or 15 years old, and the person performing the act is at least 21 years old.\n(b) A person who violates this section is guilty of the felony of sexual offense in the third degree and on conviction is subject to imprisonment not exceeding 10 years.","path":["Article - Criminal Law"],"source_url":"https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Laws/StatuteText?article=gcr\u0026section=3-307","current_through":"2026-01-01","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T19:57:08Z","sha256":"0850d1034258147cf555a45a2d1de1a143155135aad49102a2583eeb2422fc15","source_id":"us-md","stale":false,"prev":"us-md/md.-code-criminal-law-3-304","next":"us-md/md.-code-criminal-law-3-308"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}