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A. A person is guilty of dealing in harmful material when, knowing that a person is a minor, or having failed to exercise reasonable care in ascertaining the proper age of a minor, he:

1. Knowingly distributes or offers to distribute, exhibits or offers to exhibit, any harmful material to a minor; or

2. Produces, presents, or directs any performance before a minor, harmful to minors, or participates in any performance before a minor, harmful to minors; or

3. Falsely pretends to be the parent or legal guardian of a minor and thereby causes the minor to be admitted to an exhibition of any harmful material.

B. This section does not prohibit any parent or legal guardian from distributing any harmful material to his minor child or ward or for permitting his minor child or ward to attend an exhibition of any harmful material if the minor child or ward is accompanied by him. This section does not prohibit a person from exhibiting any harmful material to a minor child who is accompanied by his parent or legal guardian or by any person whom he reasonably believes to be the parent or legal guardian of that child.

C. Each separate offense under this section is a class B misdemeanor punishable by a minimum mandatory fine of not less than one hundred dollars plus ten dollars for each article exhibited up to a maximum two hundred ninety-nine dollars and by incarceration, without suspension of sentence in any way, for a term of not less than fourteen days. (Code 1975 § 13-1206)