Arizona Laws 13-3609. Child bigamy; classification; definitions
A. A person commits child bigamy if the person knowingly does any of the following:
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 13-3609
- Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
- Felony: means an offense for which a sentence to a term of imprisonment in the custody of the state department of corrections is authorized by any law of this state. See Arizona Laws 13-105
- including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- Knowingly: means , with respect to conduct or to a circumstance described by a statute defining an offense, that a person is aware or believes that the person's conduct is of that nature or that the circumstance exists. See Arizona Laws 13-105
- Person: means a human being and, as the context requires, an enterprise, a public or private corporation, an unincorporated association, a partnership, a firm, a society, a government, a governmental authority or an individual or entity capable of holding a legal or beneficial interest in property. See Arizona Laws 13-105
1. Is at least eighteen years of age, has a spouse and marries a child.
2. Is at least eighteen years of age and, either alone or in association with others, directs, causes or controls the marriage of a child to a person who already has a spouse.
3. Is at least eighteen years of age and, either alone or in association with others, directs, causes or controls the marriage of a child if the child already has a spouse.
4. Is at least eighteen years of age and marries a child if the child already has a spouse.
5. Transports or finances the transportation of a child to promote marriage between the child and a person who already has a spouse.
6. Transports or finances the transportation of a child who already has a spouse to promote marriage between the child and another person.
B. This section does not apply if a person who marries a child:
1. Has a spouse who has been absent for at least five successive years without being known to the person within that time to be living.
2. Has a former marriage that has been pronounced void, annulled or dissolved by judgment of a competent court.
C. A violation of this section is a class 3 felony.
D. For the purposes of this section:
1. "Marriage" means the state of joining together as husband and wife through an agreement, promise or ceremony regardless of whether a marriage license has been issued by the appropriate authority.
2. "Marry" means to join together as husband and wife through an agreement, promise or ceremony regardless of whether a marriage license has been issued by the appropriate authority.
3. "Spouses" means two persons living together as husband and wife, including the assumption of those marital rights, duties and obligations that are usually manifested by married people, including but not necessarily dependent on sexual relations.