Chapter 9.12
OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC DECENCY

Sections:

   9.12.010   Lewd or immoral acts- Prostitution.

   9.12.020   Prohibited publications.

   9.12.030   Window peeping.

   9.12.040   Unlawful cohabitation.

   9.12.050   Gambling-General.

   9.12.060   Gambling-Lotteries.

   9.12.070   Frequenting or protecting illegal establishments.

   9.12.080   Possession of marijuana.

   9.12.090   Possession of paraphernalia.

   9.12.100   Food establishments-Contagious disease control.

   9.12.110   Curing hides prohibited.

9.12.010 Lewd or immoral acts- Prostitution.

   The following acts are lewd, immoral or obscene and their commission is unlawful:

   A.   Frequenting, loitering or being employed other than as a bartender or waitress in any establishment where alcoholic beverages are sold, and engaging in the practice of or for the purpose of soliciting others lo purchase alcoholic beverages;

   B.   Owning or operating any establishment where alcoholic beverages are sold and knowingly permitting the presence in such establishment of any person who violates the provisions of Section 9.24.100;

   C.   Uttering any abusive or obscene language whether addressed to or in the hearing of another person or making any obscene gesture to, at or about any person;

   D.   Hiring, using or employing any other person to manufacture, promote, distribute or possess any known obscene publication;

   E.   Knowingly engaging in or offering to engage in sexual intercourse for hire;

   F.   Entering or remaining in a house of prostitution with intent to engage in sexual intercourse with a prostitute;

   G.   Knowingly hiring a prostitute to engage in sexual intercourse;

   H.   Knowingly establishing, owning, maintaining or managing a house of prostitution or participating in the establishment, ownership, maintenance or management thereof;

   I.   Knowingly permitting any place to be used as a house of prostitution;

   J.   Procuring a prostitute for a house of prostitution;

   K.   Inducing another to become a prostitute;

   L.   Living wholly or partly upon the earnings of prostitution;

   M.   Knowingly soliciting a patron for a prostitute or for a house of prostitution;

   N.   Knowingly procuring a prostitute for a patron;

   O.   Knowingly procuring transportation for, paying for the transportation of, or transporting a person within the city with the intention of aiding that person to engage in prostitution;

   P.   Knowingly being employed by a house of prostitution or performing any function which constitutes promoting prostitution;

   Q.   Knowingly and indecently exposing the private parts or sexual organs of a person to public view. (Prior code § 7-3-1)

9.12.020 Prohibited publications.

   A.   It is unlawful for any person to sell, offer for sale, attempt to sell, accept, give away, keep in his possession with intent to sell or give away or in any way furnish or attempt to furnish any person any illustrated comic book magazine, film or other publication which, read as a whole, is of an obscene nature.

   B.   It is unlawful for any person to sell, offer for sale, attempt to sell, accept, give away, keep in his possession with intent to sell or give away or in any way furnish or attempt to furnish to any child under the age of eighteen years any comic book, magazine or other publication which, read as a whole, is concerned with accounts of crime and which, by use of drawings, depicts the following crimes: Administering poison and injurious potions, aggravated assault, arson, assault to attempt burglary, assault to maim or disfigure, assault with intent to commit rape, assault with intent to commit robbery, assault with intent to commit murder, burglary, false imprisonment, kidnapping and abduction, maiming and disfiguring, malicious mischief, murder, rape, robbery, theft or conspiracy in any of the foregoing offenses.

   C.   It is the intent of this section to include publications where the text is not prominently featured but rather is inserted in the picture usually within lines that indicate the words spoken by the characters,

   D.   This section does not apply to accounts of crime printed in the ordinary news media nor to the drawings or photographs used to illustrate such accounts nor to the legitimate illustrated historical accounts of crimes.

   E.   If any publication prohibited by this section shall be displayed in any newsstand, bookstore, market or other establishment, where such publication maybe seen by any child under the age of eighteen years visiting such establishment, such display shall be prima facie evidence that the person in charge of such establishment intended to sell, offer for sale, or attempt to furnish such publication in violation of this section. (Prior code § 7-3-2)

9.12.030 Window peeping.

   It is unlawful for any person to enter upon any private property and look, peer or peep into or be found loitering around or within the view of any window, door or other means of viewing into any occupied building other than his own household. (Prior code § 7-3-3)