Section 130.00. Sex offenses; definitions of terms  


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  • The following definitions are applicable to this article:
        1.  "Sexual  intercourse" has its ordinary meaning and occurs upon any
      penetration, however slight.
        2. (a) "Oral sexual conduct" means conduct between persons  consisting
      of  contact  between the mouth and the penis, the mouth and the anus, or
      the mouth and the vulva or vagina.
        (b) "Anal sexual conduct" means conduct between persons consisting  of
      contact between the penis and anus.
        3. "Sexual contact" means any touching of the sexual or other intimate
      parts of a person not married to the actor for the purpose of gratifying
      sexual  desire of either party. It includes the touching of the actor by
      the victim, as well as the touching of the victim by the actor,  whether
      directly or through clothing.
        4.  For  the purposes of this article "married" means the existence of
      the relationship between the actor and the victim as  spouses  which  is
      recognized by law at the time the actor commits an offense proscribed by
      this article against the victim.
        5.  "Mentally  disabled"  means  that  a  person suffers from a mental
      disease or defect which renders him or her incapable of  appraising  the
      nature of his or her conduct.
        6.   "Mentally   incapacitated"   means  that  a  person  is  rendered
      temporarily incapable of appraising or controlling his conduct owing  to
      the  influence  of  a narcotic or intoxicating substance administered to
      him without his consent, or to any other act committed upon him  without
      his consent.
        7. "Physically helpless" means that a person is unconscious or for any
      other  reason  is  physically  unable to communicate unwillingness to an
      act.
        8. "Forcible compulsion" means to compel by either:
        a. use of physical force; or
        b. a threat, express or implied, which places  a  person  in  fear  of
      immediate  death  or  physical  injury  to  himself,  herself or another
      person, or in fear that he, she or another person  will  immediately  be
      kidnapped.
        9.  "Foreign  object"  means  any  instrument  or  article which, when
      inserted in the vagina, urethra, penis or rectum, is capable of  causing
      physical injury.
        10.  "Sexual  conduct"  means sexual intercourse, oral sexual conduct,
      anal sexual conduct, aggravated sexual contact, or sexual contact.
        11. "Aggravated sexual contact" means  inserting,  other  than  for  a
      valid medical purpose, a foreign object in the vagina, urethra, penis or
      rectum of a child, thereby causing physical injury to such child.
        12.  "Health care provider" means any person who is, or is required to
      be, licensed or registered  or  holds  himself  or  herself  out  to  be
      licensed  or  registered,  or  provides  services  as  if he or she were
      licensed or registered in  the  profession  of  medicine,  chiropractic,
      dentistry  or  podiatry  under any of the following: article one hundred
      thirty-one, one hundred thirty-two, one  hundred  thirty-three,  or  one
      hundred forty-one of the education law.
        13.  "Mental  health  care  provider" shall mean a licensed physician,
      licensed psychologist, registered professional nurse, licensed  clinical
      social  worker  or a licensed master social worker under the supervision
      of a physician, psychologist or licensed clinical social worker.