Promoting a sexual performance by a child · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 263.15 Promoting a sexual performance by a child.
A person is guilty of promoting a sexual performance by a child when, knowing the character and content thereof, such person produces, directs or promotes any performance which includes sexual conduct by a child less than seventeen years of age, including a performance created or altered by digitization as defined in section 245.15 of this part.
Promoting a sexual performance by a child is a class D felony.
Knowingly producing, directing, or promoting a performance that includes sexual conduct by a child under 17 is promoting a sexual performance by a child. Digitally created or altered performances under § 245.15 are included, and the offense is a class D felony. ★
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 4 — The Court Clerk: Penal Law; Volume 1 — The Court Officer in Plain English; Volume 3 — The Court Officer: Penal Law; Volume 3 — Your Career: Penal Law in Plain English.