For the purpose of this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
AUDIENCE
One or more persons who are permitted to view a performance for valuable
consideration or in or from a public place.
DISPLAY PUBLICLY
Exposing, placing, posting, exhibiting, or in any other fashion displaying
in any location, whether public or private, material or a performance in such
a manner that it may be readily seen and its content or character distinguished
by viewing it in or from a public place or vehicle.
DISSEMINATE
Manufacture, issue, publish, sell, lend, distribute, transmit, broadcast,
exhibit or present material or to offer or agree to do the same, or to have
in one's possession with intent to do the same.
LEWD MATERIAL
Any material or performance in which all of the following elements
are present:
(1)
Considered as a whole, by the average person, applying the contemporary
community standards of the Borough of Tullytown, it appeals to the prurient
interest in sex;
(2)
It depicts, describes or represents, in a patently offensive way, sexual
conduct, as hereinafter defined; and
(3)
Taken as a whole, it lacks serious literary, artistic, political or
scientific values.
MATERIAL
Any printed matter, visual representation, or sound recording, including
but not limited to books, magazines, motion-picture films, pamphlets, newspapers,
pictures, photographs, drawings, three-dimensional forms, sculptures, and
phonograph, tape or wire recordings.
NUDITY
Uncovered, or less than opaquely covered, post-pubertal human genitals
or pubic area, the post-pubertal human female breast below a point immediately
above the top of the areola or the covered human male genitals in a discernibly
turgid state. For the purpose of this definition, a female breast is considered
uncovered if the nipple only or the nipple and the areola only are covered.
PANDER
Advertising or propagandizing in connection with the sale of material,
the offering of a service, or the presentation or exhibition of a performance
by appealing to the prurient interest of potential customers.
PERFORMANCE
Any live or reproduced exhibition, including but not limited to any
play, motion-picture film, dance or appearance presented to or performed before
an audience.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, firm, association, corporation or other
legal entity.
PRURIENT INTEREST
Desire or craving for sexual stimulation or gratification. In determining
prurient interest, the material or performance shall be judged with reference
to average persons, unless it appears from the character of the material or
performance that it is designed to appeal to the prurient interest of a particular
group of persons, including, but not limited to, homosexuals or sadomasochists.
In that case, it shall be judged with reference to the particular group for
which it was designed.
PUBLIC PLACE or VEHICLE
Any street, alley, park, boulevard, school or other public property
or any dance hall, rental hall, theater, amusement park, liquor establishment,
store, depot, place of public accommodation, or other private property in
the Borough generally frequented by the public for the purposes of education,
recreation, amusement, entertainment, sport, shopping or travel; or any vehicle
for public transportation, owned or operated by government, either directly
or through a public corporation or authority, or owned or operated by any
nongovernmental agency for the use, enjoyment or transportation of the general
public.
SADOMASOCHISTIC ABUSE
Flagellation or torture by or upon a person who is nude or clad in
undergarments or in a sexually revealing or bizarre costume, or the condition
of such person being fettered, bound or otherwise physically restrained, in
an apparent act of sexual stimulation or gratification.
SEXUAL CONDUCT
(2)
Sexual intercourse, whether genital-genital, oral-genital, oral-anal,
or anal-genital;
(3)
Any erotic fondling or touching of the covered or uncovered genitals, buttocks, pubic area, or any part thereof, the breasts of the female, whether the conduct described in Subsection
(1) through
(3) of this definition is engaged in alone or between members of the same or opposite sex, or between humans and animals or humans and inanimate objects;
(4)
Actual or simulated display or exhibition of the human pubic area or
genitals or any part thereof;
(5)
Sexual excitement, as hereinafter defined; or
(6)
Sadomasochistic abuse as herein defined.
SEXUAL EXCITEMENT
The facial expressions, movements, utterances or any other physical
responses of a human male or female, whether alone or with others, whether
clothed or not, who is in an apparent state of sexual stimulation or arousal,
or experiencing the physical or sensual reactions of humans engaging in or
witnessing sexual conduct.