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<section article="gcr" article_name="Criminal Law" number="11-203" title_number="11" title_name="Indecency and Obscenity" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Obscene Matter">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Distribute” includes to rent.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Illicit sex” means:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>human genitals in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>acts of human masturbation, sexual intercourse, or sodomy; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>fondling or other erotic touching of human genitals.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>“Item” means a:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>still picture or photograph;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>book, pocket book, pamphlet, or magazine;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>videodisc, videotape, video game, film, or computer disc; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>recorded telephone message.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>“Obscene” means:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>that the average adult applying contemporary community standards would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>that the work depicts sexual conduct specified in subsection (b) of this section in a way that is patently offensive to prevailing standards in the adult community as a whole with respect to what is suitable material; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>that the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious artistic, educational, literary, political, or scientific value.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>“Partially nude figure” means a figure with:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>less than completely and opaquely covered human genitals, pubic region, buttocks, or female breast below a point immediately above the top of the areola; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>human male genitals in a discernibly turgid state, even if completely and opaquely covered.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A person may not willfully or knowingly display or exhibit to a minor an item:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the cover or content of which is principally made up of an obscene description or depiction of illicit sex; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>that consists of an obscene picture of a nude or partially nude figure.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A person may not willfully or knowingly engage in the business of displaying, exhibiting, selling, showing, advertising for sale, or distributing to a minor an item:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the cover or content of which is principally made up of an obscene description or depiction of illicit sex; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>that consists of an obscene picture of a nude or partially nude figure.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>If a newsstand or other place of business is frequented by minors, the owner, operator, franchisee, manager, or an employee with managerial responsibility may not openly and knowingly display at the place of business an item whose sale, display, exhibition, showing, or advertising is prohibited by paragraph (2) of this subsection.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The provision of services or facilities by a telephone company under a tariff approved by the Public Service Commission is not a violation of subsection (b) of this section relating to recorded telephone messages.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>A person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>for a first violation, imprisonment not exceeding 1 year or a fine not exceeding $1,000 or both; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>for each subsequent violation, imprisonment not exceeding 3 years or a fine not exceeding $5,000 or both.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
