Title XL ADDITIONAL EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS
< > Effective - 28 Aug 2001, 4 histories, see footnote (history)632.480. Definitions. — As used in sections 632.480 to 632.513, the following terms mean:
(1) "Agency with jurisdiction", the department of corrections or the department of mental health;
(2) "Mental abnormality", a congenital or acquired condition affecting the emotional or volitional capacity which predisposes the person to commit sexually violent offenses in a degree constituting such person a menace to the health and safety of others;
(3) "Predatory", acts directed towards individuals, including family members, for the primary purpose of victimization;
(4) "Sexually violent offense", the felonies of forcible rape, rape, statutory rape in the first degree, forcible sodomy, sodomy, statutory sodomy in the first degree, or an attempt to commit any of the preceding crimes, or child molestation in the first or second degree, sexual abuse, sexual assault, deviate sexual assault, or the act of abuse of a child as defined in subdivision (1) of subsection 1 of section 568.060 which involves sexual contact, and as defined in subdivision (2) of subsection 1 of section 568.060;
(5) "Sexually violent predator", any person who suffers from a mental abnormality which makes the person more likely than not to engage in predatory acts of sexual violence if not confined in a secure facility and who:
(a) Has pled guilty or been found guilty, or been found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect pursuant to section 552.030 of a sexually violent offense; or
(b) Has been committed as a criminal sexual psychopath pursuant to section 632.475 and statutes in effect before August 13, 1980.
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(L. 1998 H.B. 1405, et al. § 1, A.L. 2001 S.B. 267)
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