(A) A person is guilty of promoting sale of obscenity when he or she knowingly, as a condition to a sale, allocation, consignment or delivery for resale of any paper, magazine, book, periodical, publication or other merchandise, requires that the purchaser or consignee receive any matter reasonably believed by the purchaser or consignee to be obscene, or he or she denies or threatens to deny a franchise, revokes or threatens to revoke, or imposes any penalty, financial or otherwise, by reason of the failure of any person to accept such matter, or by reason of the return of such matter.
(B) Promoting sale of obscenity is a Class B misdemeanor for the first offense; and a Class A misdemeanor for the second offense.
(KRS 531.060) (1980 Code, § 1020.18-7)