The Board of Supervisors finds that in the unincorporated area of Sacramento County:
1. 
There is a great volume in the number and variety of crime "comic" books available to children under the age of eighteen years;
2. 
These crime "comic" books resemble closely other publications devoted in substance to humor; age;
3. 
These crime "comic" books are placed for sale side by side with humorous publications;
4. 
These crime "comic" books have been sold or circulated to children under eighteen years of
5. 
Many children have been incited to commit crimes as a consequence of looking at crime "comic" books;
6. 
Many children have been incited to attempt the commitment of a crime as a consequence of looking at crime "comic" books;
7. 
There is a clear and present danger which the Board of Supervisors finds is great and imminent that the continued sale and circulation in the unincorporated area of Sacramento County of crime "comic" books to children will incite the children to commit crimes or attempt to commit crimes and inculcate a preference in the hands of many of the children to participate in crime;
8. 
The Board of Supervisors specifically finds that the prohibition against the sale to or circulation of crime "comic" books to children is a reasonable measure to meet the clear and present danger hereinabove found.
(Ord. 652 § 1, 1959)
Every person is guilty of a misdemeanor who sells or circulates any crime "comic" book to any child under the age of eighteen years.
(Ord. 652 § 1, 1959)
This chapter does not apply:
1. 
To those accounts of crime which are part of the general dissemination of news;
2. 
To those accounts of crime which appear in a newspaper of general circulation;
3. 
To those accounts of crime which delineate actual historical events;
4. 
To those accounts which delineate occurrences actually set forth in the sacred scriptures of any religion.
(Ord. 652 § 3, 1959)
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meaning given herein. When not inconsistent with the context, words used in the present tense include the future, words in the plural number include the singular number and words in the singular number include the plural number.
1. 
"Crime comic book" means any book, magazine, or pamphlet in which an account of crime is set forth by means of a series of five or more drawings or photographs, in sequence, which are accompanied by either narrative writing or words represented as being spoken by a pictured character, whether such narrative or words appear in "balloon," captions or on or immediately adjacent to the photograph or drawing;
2. 
"In sequence" means in direct order, excluding intervening breaks which continue the account, where such intervening breaks:
A. 
Contain narrative material, or
B. 
Contain a drawing or photograph without words or narrative material;
3. 
"Crime" means the commission or attempted commission of an act of arson, burglary, kidnapping, mayhem, murder, rape, robbery, theft, train-wrecking, or voluntary manslaughter; or the commission of an act of assault with a deadly weapon. As the term "crime" is used in subdivision (1), it includes but is not limited to, acts by human beings, and further includes acts by animals or any nonhuman, part human, or imaginary beings, which if performed by a human would constitute any of the crimes named;
4. 
"Balloon" means the outline enclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured character;
5. 
"Person" means any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business, trust, corporation, or company;
6. 
"Sells" or "circulates" means to sell, offer for sale, attempt to sell, exhibit, give away, keep in possession with intent to sell or give away or in any way furnish or attempt to furnish;
7. 
"Sacred scriptures" means the Bible, including any version thereof, or any writing of similar stature in any established religion.
(Ord. 652 § 4, 1959)