Megan's Law Criminal Offense List

Revisions Effective 12/8/2008 Shown in Purple

10-Year Registration

Offenders convicted of the following offenses:

   • Kidnapping, where the victim is a minor (18 Pa. C.S. § 2901)

   • Luring a Child into a Motor Vehicle or Structure (18 Pa. C.S. § 2910)

   • Institutional Sexual Assault (18 Pa. C.S. § 3124.2)

   • Indecent Assault where the offense is graded as a misdemeanor of the first degree or higher (18 Pa. C.S. § 3126)
 
   • Incest, where the victim is 12 years of age or older but under 18 years of age (18 Pa. C.S. § 4302)

   • Prostitution and related offenses, where the actor promotes the prostitution of a minor (18 Pa. C.S. § 5902[b])

   • Obscene and other sexual materials and performances, where the victim is a minor (18 Pa. C.S. § 5903[a] [3], [4], [5], or [6])

   • Sexual abuse of children (18 Pa. C.S. § 6312)

   • Unlawful contact with minor (18 Pa. C.S. § 6318)

   • Sexual exploitation of children (18 Pa. C.S. § 6320)

   • Offenders convicted of an attempt, conspiracy or solicitation to commit any of the offenses under 10-year registration or lifetime registration

   • Offenders convicted in jurisdictions outside the Commonwealth of an equivalent offense listed under the 10-year registration where the conviction occurred under a former law of the Commonwealth, in another state, territory, Federal court, the District of Columbia, or where the offender was sentenced by court martial, or where the offender was required to register under a sexual offender statute in the jurisdiction where the offender was convicted, and the offender: 
      o Resides in the Commonwealth; or
      o Is employed or carries on a vocation in the Commonwealth; or
      o Is a student in the Commonwealth.

Note: Offenders convicted in other jurisdictions are subject to a period of registration equal to that of their jurisdiction of origin. This may exceed ten years, but can be no less than 10 years.

   • Offenders paroled after the effective date of the statute for any of the offenses under the 10-year registration.
 
Lifetime Registration
 
Offenders convicted of the following offenses:

   • Offenders with two or more convictions of any of the offenses set forth under the 10-year registration

   • Rape (18 Pa. C.S. § 3121)

   • Involuntary Deviate Sexual Intercourse (18 Pa. C.S. § 3123)

   • Sexual Assault (18 Pa. C.S. § 3124.1)

   • Aggravated Indecent Assault (18 Pa. C.S. § 3125)

   • Incest, where the victim is under 12 years of age (18 Pa. C.S. § 4302)

   • Offenders designated by the court as Sexually Violent Predators

   • Offenders being released from a state or county correctional facility for any of the offenses under lifetime registration
 
   • Offenders convicted in jurisdictions outside the Commonwealth of an equivalent offense listed under lifetime registration where the conviction occurred under a former law of the Commonwealth, in another state, territory, Federal court, the District of Columbia, or where the offender was sentenced by court martial, or where the offender was required to register under a sexual offender statute in the jurisdiction where the offender was convicted, and the offender:
      o Resides in the Commonwealth; or
      o Is employed or carries on a vocation in the Commonwealth; or
      o Is a student in the Commonwealth.

   • Offenders paroled after the effective date of the statute for any of the offenses under lifetime registration.