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[CITE: 10USC2489a]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                PART IV--SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT
 
 CHAPTER 147--COMMISSARIES AND EXCHANGES AND OTHER MORALE, WELFARE, AND 
                          RECREATION ACTIVITIES
 
Sec. 2489a. Sale or rental of sexually explicit material 
        prohibited
        
    (a) Prohibition of Sale or Rental.--The Secretary of Defense may not 
permit the sale or rental of sexually explicit material on property 
under the jurisdiction of the Department of Defense.
    (b) Prohibition of Officially Provided Sexually Explicit Material.--
A member of the armed forces or a civilian officer or employee of the 
Department of Defense acting in an official capacity may not provide for 
sale, remuneration, or rental sexually explicit material to another 
person.
    (c) Regulations.--The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe 
regulations to implement this section.
    (d) Definitions.--In this section:
        (1) The term ``sexually explicit material'' means an audio 
    recording, a film or video recording, or a periodical with visual 
    depictions, produced in any medium, the dominant theme of which 
    depicts or describes nudity, including sexual or excretory 
    activities or organs, in a lascivious way.
        (2) The term ``property under the jurisdiction of the Department 
    of Defense'' includes commissaries, all facilities operated by the 
    Army and Air Force Exchange Service, the Navy Exchange Service 
    Command, the Navy Resale and Services Support Office, Marine Corps 
    exchanges, and ships' stores.

(Added Pub. L. 104-201, div. A, title III, Sec. 343(a)(1), Sept. 23, 
1996, 110 Stat. 2489.)


                             Effective Date

    Section 343(b) of Pub. L. 104-201 provided that: ``Subsection (a) of 
section 2489a of title 10, United States Code, as added by subsection 
(a) of this section, shall take effect 90 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act [Sept. 23, 1996].''
