Chapter 9.20 LEWDNESS, PROFANITY, NUDITY, OBSCENITY AND PORNOGRAPHY
Section 9.20.010 Unlawful acts.
The following acts are declared to be unlawful if done in
any public place:
A. The use of abusive, menacing, insulting,
slanderous or profane language; or the uttering
of obscenities;
B. For any person to wilfully participate
in any patently offensive act, representation or
description of sexual conduct, whether normal or perverted, actual or simulated;
C. To knowingly or wilfully bathe
in the nude in public or in such a manner that the nude
body is exposed to the view of other persons;
D. To wilfully participate in or allow
patently offensive acts, representations or descriptions
of excretory functions and/or lewd exhibitions of the genitals;
E. To expose his private parts or
go nude, or topless (if female) or bottomless in any public
place or to procure, counsel or assist any other person to so expose themselves;
F. To urinate or stool in any public
place (except public restrooms) or in any place exposed
to public view, or to procure, counsel or aid any person to do so;
G. To possess, import, write, compose,
stereotype, print, design, copy, draw, paint, or
otherwise prepare, publish, offer for sale, display, exhibit by machine or otherwise or distribute
or furnish any writing, paper, book, picture, magazine, pamphlet, print, design, figure, still or
motion picture, photograph, or negative thereof, photocopy, engraving, sound or video recording,
card, instrument or other such article which depicts or represents or describes any obscene sexual
conduct, or obscene performance or sadomasochistic abuse, with the intent to distribute or
exhibit the same or use the same for advertising purposes, or to exhibit the same in any public
place;
H. To buy, procure, receive or have
in his possession any writing, paper, book, picture,
drawing, magazine, pamphlet, print, design, figure, still or motion picture, photograph or
negative thereof, photocopy, engraving, sound or video recording, card instrument or other
article which depicts or represents or describes obscene sexual conduct and/or obscene
performance, obscenities or sadomasochistic abuse with intent to distribute or exhibit the same,
or to exhibit the same in any public place, or use the same for advertising purposes;
I. For any person, firm or corporation
to distribute or exhibit any materials as obscene
materials, whether or not the same are actually obscene, or to advertise as obscene any
publications, film, picture or writing when the act of so doing shall amount to pandering or
advertising of obscene materials;
J. For any distributor or wholesaler
to require as a condition to a sale, allocation,
consignment or delivery for resale of any paper, magazine, book, periodical, publication, film or
other merchandise, that the purchaser, consignee, or distributor receive any other material, which
is obscene or is believed by the purchaser or consignee to be obscene, or is advertised by the
distributor to be obscene, or deny or threaten to deny any franchise, license, distributorship or
contract, or revoke or threaten to revoke, or impose any penalties financially or otherwise, by
reason of a failure or refusal of such purchaser or consignee, to accept such materials or to do
such acts by reason of the return of such materials. (Added during 1993 recodification)