{"data":{"id":"us-nh/rsa-649-b-4","jurisdiction":"us-nh","citation":"RSA 649-B:4","heading":"Certain Uses of Computer Services Prohibited.","body":"I. No person shall knowingly utilize a computer on-line service, internet service, or local bulletin board service to seduce, solicit, lure, or entice a child or another person believed by the person to be a child, to commit any of the following:\n(a) Any offense under RSA 632-A, relative to sexual assault and related offenses.\n(b) Indecent exposure and lewdness under RSA 645:1.\n(c) Endangering a child as defined in RSA 639:3, III.\nII. (a) A person who violates the provisions of paragraph I shall be guilty of a class A felony if such person believed the child was under the age of 13, otherwise such person shall be guilty of a class B felony.\n(b) A person convicted under paragraph I based on an indictment alleging that the person has been previously convicted of an offense under this section or a reasonably equivalent offense in an out-of-state jurisdiction shall be charged as a class A felony. If the indictment also alleges that the person believed that the child was under the age of 13, the person may be sentenced to a maximum sentence not to exceed 20 years and a minimum sentence not to exceed 10 years.\n(c) If the person has been previously convicted 2 or more times for an offense under this section or a reasonably equivalent statute in another state, the person may be sentenced to a maximum term not to exceed 30 years.\nIII. It shall not be a defense to a prosecution under this section that the victim was not actually a child so long as the person reasonably believed that the victim was a child.","path":["Title LXII: CRIMINAL CODE","Chapter 649-B: COMPUTER PORNOGRAPHY AND CHILD EXPLOITATION PREVENTION"],"source_url":"https://gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/LXII/649-B/649-B-4.htm","current_through":"2025 regular legislative session, or December 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T17:32:31Z","sha256":"d9b7f2f68a692030ad8318670fc9ddca9676372c0f4ecd232d7a72aa285853a9","source_id":"us-nh","stale":false,"prev":"us-nh/rsa-649-b-3","next":"us-nh/rsa-649-b-5"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}