[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of Langhorne 5-9-1984. Amendments noted where applicable.]
As applied to § 306-2, the following words shall have the following meanings:
COMMUNITY STANDARDS
The standards of the community from which the jury is drawn or would be drawn if it were the trier of the facts.
KNOWINGLY
Having knowledge of the character and contents of the material involved or failure on notice to exercise reasonable inspection which would disclose the contents and character of the same.
MINOR
Any natural person under the age of 18 years.
OBSCENE
Is that which is determined as obscene, applying the following guidelines:
A. 
Whether the average person applying contemporary community standards would find that the subject matter taken as a whole appeals to the prurient interest;
B. 
Whether the subject matter depicts or describes in a patently offensive way sexual conduct of a type hereinafter described, and
C. 
Whether the subject matter taken as a whole lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.
PATENTLY OFFENSIVE
So offensive on its face as to affront current standards of decency, and shall be deemed to include any of the following described forms of sexual conduct, if they are depicted so as to affront current standards of decency:
A. 
An act of sexual intercourse, normal or perverted, actual or simulated, real or animated, including genital-genital, anal-genital or oral-genital intercourse, whether between human beings or between a human being and an animal.
B. 
Sadomasochistic abuse meaning flagellation or torture or sexual gratification by or upon a person who is nude or clad in undergarments or in a revealing costume, or the condition of being fettered, bound or otherwise physically restrained on the part of the one so clothed.
C. 
Masturbation, excretory functions and lewd exhibition of the genitals, including any explicit close-up representation of a human genital organ or spread-eagle exposure of female genital organs.
D. 
Physical contact or simulated physical contact with the clothed or naked pubic area or buttocks of a human male or female, or the breasts of the female, whether alone or between members of the same or opposite sex, or between humans and animals in an act of apparent sexual stimulation or gratification.
E. 
A device designed and marketed as useful primarily for stimulation of the human genital organs.
F. 
Male or female genitals in a discernible turgid state.
G. 
Fellatio, cunnilingus, anal sodomy, seminal ejaculation or any excretory function.
PERSON
Whenever pertaining to a partnership shall mean the partners or members thereof, and as applied to a corporation shall mean the officers thereof.
No building may be erected, altered or used and no lot or premises may be used in whole or in part for the sale, rental, distribution, exhibition, showing or transmission of any obscene motion picture film, or any obscene literature, book, magazine, pamphlet, newspaper, storybook paper, comic book, writing, drawing, video cartridge, tape, photograph, figure or image, or any device, article or instrument of an obscene nature, nor may such be erected, altered or used in whole or in part for the designing, copying, drawing, photographing, printing, lettering, publishing, or in any manner for the manufacture or preparation of any such item, device, article or instrument, nor shall any building, lot or premises be erected, altered or used in whole or in part, when frequented by minors, or where such lot, building or premises is a place where minors are or may be, invited as part of the general public, for the display of any material depicting the acts specified in § 306-1 as patently offensive, or where they may view material depicting male or female buttocks or genitals or the female breast below a point immediately above the top of the areola; nor shall such a building, lot or premises be erected, altered or used in whole or in part for the sale, rental, distribution, exhibition, showing or transmission to another of any obscene motion picture film, or any obscene literature, book, magazine, writing or other written or printed material containing photographs or photographic images depicting children under the age of 17 years participating in, performing or observing any of the acts defined as patently offensive in § 306-1. The use of any building, lot or premises in whole or in part for the display of any obscene literature or film displaying or presenting pictures, photographs or photographic images depicting pre-pubescent children exhibiting underdeveloped genitals or breasts shall be prohibited per se without further proof of age.
[Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Any person who violates or permits a violation of this chapter shall be subject to the fines and penalties set forth in § 450-1301 of Chapter 450, Zoning.