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38-1-301 - Purpose of part.
38-1-301. Purpose of part.
The purpose of this part is to curtail the crime of statutory rape, to require the reporting of a condition believed to be indicative of statutory rape, and, being necessary for the health, peace and safety of the public, to protect minors in a specified age range, who are not legally competent to consent to sex, from rape.
[Acts 1996, ch. 842, § 1.]
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