PL 130.85 Female genital mutilation Class E felony
§ 130.85 Female genital mutilation.
  1. A person is guilty of female genital mutilation when:
  (a)  a person knowingly circumcises, excises, or infibulates the whole
or any part of the labia majora or labia minora or clitoris  of  another
person who has not reached eighteen years of age; or
  (b)  being  a parent, guardian or other person legally responsible and
charged with the care or custody of a child  less  than  eighteen  years
old, he or she knowingly consents to the circumcision, excision or infi-
bulation  of  whole or part of such child's labia majora or labia minora
or clitoris.
  2. Such circumcision, excision, or infibulation is not a violation  of
this section if such act is:
  (a) necessary to the health of the person on whom it is performed, and
is  performed  by a person licensed in the place of its performance as a
medical practitioner; or
  (b) performed on a person in labor or who has just given birth and  is
performed  for  medical purposes connected with that labor or birth by a
person licensed in the place it is performed as a medical  practitioner,
midwife, or person in training to become such a practitioner or midwife.
  3.  For  the  purposes  of  paragraph  (a)  of subdivision two of this
section, no account shall be taken of the effect on the person  on  whom
such  procedure  is to be performed of any belief on the part of that or
any other person that such procedure is required as a matter  of  custom
or ritual.
  Female genital mutilation is a class E felony.

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