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Updated: 
June 21, 2024

39-15-302. Incest

(a) A person commits incest who engages in sexual penetration as defined in § 39-13-501, with a person, knowing the person to be, without regard to legitimacy:

(1) The person’s natural parent, child, grandparent, grandchild, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, stepparent, stepchild, adoptive parent, adoptive child; or

(2) The person’s brother or sister of the whole or half-blood or by adoption.

(b) Incest is a Class C felony.