For purposes of this article:
(a) "Knowingly" means to have knowledge of or to be aware of the content or character of obscene matter.
(b) "Matter" means any book, magazine, newspaper or other printed or written material, or any picture, drawing or photograph, motion picture, or other visual representation, or live conduct, or any recording, transcription or mechanical, chemical or electrical reproduction, or any other articles, equipment, machines or materials.
(c) "Individual" means any human being regardless of age.
(d) "Obscene" means matter which the average individual applying contemporary community standards would find, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest; depicts or describes in a patently offensive way ultimate sexual acts, normal or perverted, actual or simulated; and the matter, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value, and which either:
(1) Depicts or describes patently offensive representation of masturbation, excretory functions, lewd exhibition of genitals, sodomy, fellatio, cunnilingus, bestiality, sadism, masochism; or
(2) Depicts or describes nudity or sexual acts of persons, male or female, below the age of eighteen years.
(e) "Person" means any individual, partnership, firm, association, corporation or other legal entity.
(f) "Prepare" means to produce, publish or print.
(g) "Public display" means the placing of material on or in a billboard, viewing screen, theatre, marquee, newsstand, display rack, window, showcase, display case or similar public place so that material can be purchased or viewed by individuals.
(Ord. 83-15. Passed 7-21-83.)