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No person shall wilfully do any of the following:

A. Associate in a lewd, lascivious or obscene manner with any person, whether married or unmarried, engage in open and gross lewdness, lascivious or obscene behavior or make any open, public, indecent or obscene exposure of his person or of his private parts, or the person or private parts of another;

B. Procure, counsel or assist any person to expose himself, or to take part in any artists’ model exhibition, or to make any other exhibition of himself to public view, or to the view of any number of persons, such as is adapted to excite to obscene or lewd thoughts or acts;

C. Import, write, compose, stereotype, print, design, copy, draw, paint or otherwise prepare, publish, sell, offer for sale, display, exhibit by machine or otherwise or distribute any writing, paper, book, picture, drawing, magazine, pamphlet, print, design figure, still or motion picture, photograph or negative thereof, photocopy, engraving, sound recording, card, instrument or other such article which is obscene; or buy, procure, receive or have in his possession any such writing, paper, book, picture, drawing, magazine, pamphlet, print, design, figure, still or motion picture, photograph or negative thereof, photocopy, engraving, sound recording, card, instrument or other article which is obscene, with the intent of selling, exhibiting, loaning or circulating, or with the intent to introduce the same into a household, school or place of education, or any other place for the purpose of selling, exhibiting, loaning or circulating;

D. Write, compose or publish any notice or advertisement of any such writing, paper, book, picture, drawing, magazine, pamphlet, print, design, figure, still or motion picture, photograph or negative thereof, photocopy, engraving, sound recording, card, instrument or other article which is obscene, or any notice or advertisement of any article, prescription or preparation for producing or facilitation a miscarriage;

E. Sing or speak an obscene or lewd song, ballad or any other obscene or lewd words in any public place or in the presence or other persons who may be annoyed thereby;

F. Sell or distribute or import, print or publish for the purpose of selling or distributing to a person under the age of eighteen years a book, pamphlet, ballad, printed paper, phonograph record, print, picture, figure, image or description or other article which manifestly tends to corrupt the morals of youths under the age of eighteen years; or introduce into a household, school or place of education or buy, procure, receive or have in his possession any such book, pamphlet, ballad, printed paper, phonograph record, print, picture, figure, image or other thing either for the purpose of sale, exhibition, loan or circulation to a person under the age of eighteen years or with intent to introduce the same into a household, school or place of education for such a purpose. In deciding whether such items tend to corrupt the morals of youth, the test shall be whether to the average youth under the age of eighteen years, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to the prurient interest. (Ord. 19-13 § 21 (part), 2019; prior code § 17-24)