ARTICLE 6
Public Decency and Morals

Sec. 10-6-10. Definitions.

   As used in this Article, the following words shall have the definitions ascribed to them, unless otherwise provided:

   House of prostitution means a house or place kept or resorted to for the purpose of prostitution.

   Lewd act means an indecent, wanton and lascivious act committed in the presence of another or in a place open to the public view. Lewd act shall include an appearance in the state of nudity or in any indecent or lewd dress, indecent exposure and exposure of the private parts.

   Meretricious display means any act, sign, gesture or manifestation which allures or is calculated to allure, entices or is calculated to entice, by a false show, gaudiness, tawdry ornamentation or lascivious suggestion for purposes of prostitution.

   Obscene means material or a performance that:

      a.   The average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest in sex.

      b.   Depicts or describes:

         1.   Patently offensive representations or descriptions of ultimate sex acts, normal or perverted, actual or simulated, including sexual intercourse, sodomy and sexual bestiality; or

         2.   Patently offensive representations or descriptions of masturbation, excretory functions, sadism, masochism, lewd exhibition of the genitals, the male or female genitals in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal, or covered male genitals in a discernibly turgid state.

      c.   Taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.

   Prostitute means one who engages in prostitution as defined in this Article.

   Prostitution means the offering or receiving of the body for sexual intercourse or other physical sexual activity for hire. The term prostitution also includes the indiscriminate or promiscuous offering or receiving of the body for sexual intercourse or other physical sexual activity without hire.

(Prior code 10-4-1; Ord. 347 §1, 2008)

Sec. 10-6-20. Public indecency.

   It is unlawful to commit public indecency. Any person who performs any of the following in a public place or where the conduct may reasonably be expected to be viewed by members of the public commits public indecency:

   (1)   An act of sexual intercourse or deviate sexual intercourse;

   (2)   A lewd exposure of the body done with intent to arouse or to satisfy the sexual desire of any person; or

   (3)   A lewd fondling or caress of the body of another person.

(Ord. 347 §1, 2008)