For the purpose of this subchapter the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
COMMERCIAL HANDBILL. Any printed or written matter, sample, device, dodger, circular, leaflet, pamphlet, paper, booklet, or any other printed or otherwise reproduced original or copies of any matter or literature as follows.
(1) Which advertises for sale any merchandise, product, commodity, or thing.
(2) Which directs attention to any business or mercantile or commercial establishment, or other activity, for the purpose of either directly or indirectly promoting the interest thereof by sales.
(3) Which, while containing reading matter other than advertising matter, is predominantly and essentially an advertisement, and is distributed or circulated for advertising purposes, or for the private benefit and gain of any person so engaged as advertiser or distributor.
NEWSPAPER. Any newspaper of general circulation as defined by general law, any newspaper duly entered with the Post Office Department of the United States, in accordance with federal statute or regulation, any newspaper filed and recorded with any recording officer as provided by general law; and any periodical or current magazine regularly published with not less than four issues per year, and sold to the public.
NONCOMMERCIAL HANDBILL. Any printed or written matter, sample, device, dodger, circular, leaflet, pamphlet, newspaper, magazine, paper, booklet, or any other printed or otherwise reproduced original or copies of any matter or literature not included in the definitions of COMMERCIAL HANDBILL or NEWSPAPER with the exception of political and religious literature.
OBSCENE. Any material that meets all of the following criteria:
(1) The average individual, applying contemporary community standards, would find the material, taken as a whole, lacks serious literacy, artistic, political, or scientific value.
(2) The reasonable person would find the material, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
(3) The material depicts or describes sexual conduct in a patently offensive way.
(M.C.L.A. § 752.362)
PRIVATE PREMISES. Any dwelling, house, building, or other structure, designed or used either wholly or in part for private residential purposes, whether inhabited or temporarily or continuously uninhabited or vacant, and any yard, grounds, walk, driveway, porch, steps, vestibule or mailbox belonging or appurtenant to a dwelling, house, building, or other structure.
PUBLIC PLACE. Any and all streets, boulevards, avenues, lanes, alleys, or other public ways; and any and all public parks, squares, spaces, plazas, grounds, and buildings.
(‘83 Code, § 112.36)