HRS §712-1218
Keeping age proof for people in pornographic work
This law makes it a crime to make or keep pornographic material without proper age records for the performers. It also bans false entries and requires showing records to police when asked. Breaking this law is a serious felony.
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The statute, as written — Failure to maintain age verification records of sexual performers
(1) A person commits the offense of failure to maintain age verification records of sexual performers if the person knowingly produces any pornographic performance, book, magazine, periodical, film, videotape, computer image, or other matter that contains one or more pornographic visual depictions made after June 30, 2002, of sexual conduct and: (a) Knowingly fails to create and maintain age verification records for each sexual performer; (b) Knowingly makes or causes to be made any false entry into the age verification records of sexual performers required by this section; or (c) Knowingly fails to produce the age verification records of sexual performers required by this section, upon request by a law enforcement officer for the purpose of verifying the age of a sexual performer. (2) Failure to maintain age verification records of sexual performers is a class C felony. [L 2002, c 240, pt of §3] COMMENTARY ON §712-1218 Act 240, Session Laws 2002, added this section to establish criminal penalties against those who participate in or profit from the sexual exploitation of a minor.
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