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9.04.060   Immoral exhibitions—Prohibited.
   It is unlawful for any person engaged in, conducting or operating, either as owner, proprietor, operator, manager, lessee, agent or employee, any theater, arcade, entertainment or exhibition, or for any person whatsoever to give or cause or permit to be given, or to advertise or cause or permit to be advertised, or to participate in any obscene, indecent, immoral, or crime-depicting play, production, picture, show, entertainment or exhibition, or any delineation or illustration of any nude human figure, or any lewd, indecent or lascivious act, or any matter or thing of any obscene, indecent or immoral nature, or any boxing or prize fight exhibition when the same is in such manner or detail as tends to corrupt public morals.
(Prior code § 9.12.100 (Ord. 200 § 5, 1937))
9.04.070   Profanity, obscenity, and immorality—Abatement.
   A.   At any time when it is brought to the attention of the chief of police or any police officer, that the provisions of Sections 9.04.040 through 9.04.060 are being violated, it shall be the duty of said officers, or any of them, to visit the place where it is reported that such violation exists and there to examine into the same; and should any of the officers, upon such examination, be of the opinion that such violation does exist, it shall be his duty to notify the person in charge of the exhibition, production, or representation in question that the objectional parts or features must be forthwith eliminated and no longer exhibited, produced, or represented.
   B.   Upon such notification, it shall be the duty of the person so notified immediately to comply therewith and then and there and at all times thereafter, except as provided in Section 9.04.080, to expunge and eliminate from such exhibition, production, or presentation, such objectional parts or features, or the whole thereof.
   C.   In the event that such notification is not complied with immediately, it shall be the duty of the chief of police or other police officer to forbid and prevent the further continuance of the exhibition, production, or representation in question until the notification shall be complied with, and the person so neglecting or refusing to comply with the notification, all persons participating in the production of such exhibition, production, or representation, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be immediately arrested by any police officer as for an offense committed in the immediate presence of the police officer, with or without a warrant.
(Prior code § 9.12.110 (Ord. 200 § 6, 1937))
9.04.080   Profanity, obscenity, and immorality—Abatement appeal.
   Any person aggrieved by the action of the chief of police or other police officer under the provisions of Section 9.04.070, and who has complied with the notification provided, or on whose behalf such compliance was made, may appeal to the city council for review of the action. A hearing of such appeal may be set by the city council at the earliest convenient time and at such hearing evidence shall be adduced, and the decision of the council in such a matter shall be final. The council may from time to time prescribe rules of procedure to be observed in such hearings for the purpose of facilitating such reviews and the elimination of damage which may result to the appellant by the delay resulting from such action.
(Prior code § 9.12.120 (Ord. 200 § 7, 1937))
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