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ORDINANCE NO. 73-8-869
AN ORDINANCE FORBIDDING THE PUBLIC DISPLAY OF OBSCENE MATTER
FOR ADVERTISING PURPOSES
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF
PADUCAH,KENTUCKY:
SECTION 1. As used in this ordinance unless the context requires
otherwise:
(1) "Advertising purposes" means purposes of propagandizing
in connection with the commercial sale of a product or type of product, the commercial
offering of a service, or the commercial exhibition of an entertainment.
(2) "Displays publicly" means the exposing, placing, posting, exhibiting,
or in any fashion displaying in any location, whether public or private, an item in such
a manner that it may be readily seen by normal unaided vision viewing it from a public
thoroughfare, aisleway, depot or vehicle.
(3) "Person" means any individual, partnership, firm, association,
corporation or other legal entity.
(9) "Public thoroughfare, aisleway, depot or vehicle" means any street,
highway, park, depot or transportation platform, or passageway in any business
establishment, or other similar place, whether indoors or out.
(5) "Obscene" means that to the average person, applying contemporary
community standards, the predominant appeal of the matter, taken as a whole, is to
prurient interest, a shameful or morbid interest in nudity, sex or excretion and the
matter depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct, and the
matter, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.
(6) "Sexual conduct' means human masturbation, sexual intercourse, or
any touching of the genitals, pubic areas or buttocks of the 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.
(7) "Nudity" means uncovered, or less than opaquely covered, post-
pubertal human genitals, pubic areas, or the covered human male genitals in a
discernibly turgid state.
SECTION 2. It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly:
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(1) Display publicly or cause to be displayed publicly for advertising 1
purposes a picture, photograph, drawing, sculpture, or other visual representation
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or image or a person or portion of the human body that depicts nudity or sexual
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conduct: or
(2) Permit any display described in subsection (1) of this section on
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the premises owned, rented or operated by him.
SECTION 3. Any person who violates Section 2 of this ordinance shall be I,
fined not more than $500.00 or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.
SECTION 4. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and
after its adoption.
Mayor
Passed by the Board of Commissioners August 7, 1973
Recorded by Sarah Thurman, City Clerk, August 7, 1973.