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File #: 21-034    Version: 1 Name: CNCA 10A - EXPANSION OF MISC OFFENSES -JUVENILE
Type: Legislative Act Status: Passed
File created: 4/13/2021 In control: TRIBAL COUNCIL
On agenda: 4/29/2021 Final action: 5/20/2021
Enactment date: 5/17/2021 Enactment #: LA-17-21
Title: AN ACT AMENDING TITLE 10A OF THE CHEROKEE NATION CODE ANNOTATED AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY
Sponsors: Keith Austin, Joe Deere, Janees Taylor, Victoria Vazquez, Mike Shambaugh
Indexes: Juvenile
Code sections: Title 10 - Children
Attachments: 1. LA-17-21.PDF
Related files: CNCA-10, 21-016
Title
AN ACT AMENDING TITLE 10A OF THE CHEROKEE NATION CODE ANNOTATED AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE CHEROKEE NATION:

Section 1. Title and Codification

This act amends Title 10A of the Cherokee Nation Code Annotated and shall be codified as referenced herein of the Cherokee Nation Code Annotated.

Section 2. Purpose

The purpose of this Act is to expand the miscellaneous offenses available under the Nation's Juvenile Code.

Section 3. Legislative History

LA-11-21

Section 4. Amendments

Title 10A shall be amended as follows:

CHAPTER 7. RESERVED

CHAPTER 8. MISCELLANEOUS OFFENSES

? 2-8-111. Use of information to commit crime or cause physical harm or damage to property--Penalties

Any person who uses information obtained pursuant to this title to commit a crime or to cause physical harm to any person or damage to property shall be guilty of a misdemeanor upon conviction, and, in addition to any other punishment, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not to exceed one (1) year, or by a fine not to exceed One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or by both such fine and imprisonment.

?? 2-8-112-2-8-220. Reserved

? 2-8-221. Transmission of obscenity and child pornography

A. Whenever the Attorney General has reasonable cause to believe that an individual, with knowledge of its content, is engaged in sending a transmission or causing a transmission to originate within this state containing obscene material or child pornography, as such terms are defined in 21 CNCA ? 1024.1, the district attorney for the district into which the transmission is sent or caused to be sent, may institute an action in the district court for an adjudication of the obscenity or child pornographic content of the transmission. Provided that if the conditions of subsection B of this section are present, then it shall be at the discretion of the district attorney whether the action instituted is a juvenile offense as defined in su...

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