1. (1) As used in this section:

   1. (a) "Provider" means a person who provides or makes available his seminal fluid or her human egg.

   2. (b) "Related person" means a person related to the provider or actor as an ancestor, descendant, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, or first cousin, and includes:

      1. (i) blood relationships of the whole or half blood, regardless of whether the relationship is legally recognized;
      2. (ii) the relationship of parent and child by adoption; and
      3. (iii) the relationship of stepparent and stepchild while the marriage creating the relationship of a stepparent and stepchild exists.

2. (2)

   1. (a) An actor is guilty of incest when, under circumstances not amounting to rape, rape of a child, or aggravated sexual assault, the actor knowingly and intentionally:

      1. (i) engages in conduct under Subsection (2)(b)(i), (ii), (iii), or (iv); or
      2. (ii) provides a human egg or seminal fluid under Subsection (2)(b)(v).

   2. (b) Conduct referred to under Subsection (2)(a) is:

      1. (i) sexual intercourse between the actor and a person the actor knows has kinship to the actor as a related person;
      2. (ii) the insertion or placement of the provider's seminal fluid into the vagina, cervix, or uterus of a related person by means other than sexual intercourse;
      3. (iii) providing or making available his seminal fluid for the purpose of insertion or placement of the fluid into the vagina, cervix, or uterus of a related person by means other than sexual intercourse;

      4. (iv) a woman 18 years of age or older who:

         1. (A) knowingly allows the insertion of the seminal fluid of a provider into her vagina, cervix, or uterus by means other than sexual intercourse; and
         2. (B) knows that the seminal fluid is that of a person with whom she has kinship as a related person; or
      5. (v) providing the actor's sperm or human egg that is used to conduct in vitro fertilization, or any other means of fertilization, with the human egg or sperm of a person who is a related person.
   3. (c) This Subsection (2) does not prohibit providing a fertilized human egg if the provider of the fertilizing sperm is not a related person regarding the person providing the egg.
3. (3) Incest is a third degree felony.
4. (4) A provider under this section is not a donor under Section 81-5-702.

Amended by Chapter 426, 2025 General Session