(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, deliver, offer for sale, distribute, publish, print, exhibit or possess with intent to distribute, with knowledge of the nature or content thereof, or recklessly failing to exercise reasonable inspection which would have disclosed the nature or content thereof, any obscene writing, picture, moving picture, record or other representation or embodiment of the obscene, or to present or to direct an obscene play or other performance or to perform an obscene act or otherwise present an obscene exhibition or to advertise or otherwise promote obscene material.
(B) A thing shall be deemed to be obscene if the average person would find that the work taken as a whole appeals to a prurient interest, and the work depicts or describes patently offensive representations or descriptions of nude persons, ultimate sexual acts, normal or perverted sexual conduct, whether actual or simulated, or patently offensive representations or descriptions of masturbation, excretory functions, and lewd exhibition of the human genitals. The work, taken as a whole, must lack serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.
(1975 Code, § 21-111) (Ord. 2022-11-16A, passed 11-16-2022)
Penalty, see § 130.99