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Section
97-29-1

Adultery and fornication; unlawful cohabitation

Section
97-29-3

Adultery and fornication; between teacher and pupil

Section
97-29-5

Adultery and fornication; between certain persons forbidden to inter-marry

Section
97-29-7

Adultery and fornication; between guardian and ward

Section
97-29-9

Adultery and fornication; going out of state to marry

Section
97-29-11

Illegitimate children; person becoming natural parent of second illegitimate child; jurisdiction

Section
97-29-13

Bigamy; definition; penalty

Section
97-29-15

Bigamy; exceptions

Section
97-29-17

Bribery; participant in professional or amateur games or other athletic contests; wrestling excepted

Section
97-29-19

Dead bodies; disinterment for sale or wantonness

Section
97-29-21

Dead bodies; buying or receiving

Section
97-29-23

Dead bodies; opening graves for certain purposes

Section
97-29-25

Desecration of cemetery; desecration of human corpse

Section
97-29-27

Incest; marriage within prohibited degrees

Section
97-29-29

Incest; persons divorced for incest not to cohabit or copulate

Section
97-29-31

Indecent exposure

Section
97-29-33

Repealed

Section
97-29-35

Repealed

Sections
97-29-37 through 97-29-41

Repealed

Section
97-29-43

Polygamy; teaching of

Section
97-29-45

Obscene electronic communications

Section
97-29-47

Profanity or drunkenness in public place

Section
97-29-49

Prostitution; report to Department of Child Protection Services for suspected child sexual abuse or neglect if minor involved; immunity from prosecution if trafficked person involved

Section
97-29-51

Prostitution; misdemeanor procuring services of prostitute; felony promoting prostitution; penalties

Section
97-29-53

Repealed

Section
97-29-55

Seduction of female over age of eighteen by promised or pretended marriage

Section
97-29-57

Stallion or jack not to be kept in public view or permitted to run at large

Section
97-29-59

Unnatural intercourse

Section
97-29-61

Voyeurism; trespass by "peeping Tom"; when victim is adult; when victim is child under sixteen

Section
97-29-63

Photographing or filming another without permission where there is expectation of privacy; when victim is adult; when victim is child under sixteen

Section
97-29-65

Strip clubs prohibited within one-fourth mile of church, school, kindergarten, or courthouse