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The following acts are hereby declared to be unlawful if done in any public place:

(1) The use of abusive, menacing, insulting, slanderous or profane language; or the uttering of obscenities.

(2) For any person to wilfully participate in any patently offensive act, representation or description of ultimate sexual acts, whether normal or perverted, actual or simulated.

(3) To knowingly or wilfully bathe in the nude in public or in such a manner that the nude body is exposed to the view of other persons.

(4) To willfully participate in or allow patently offensive acts, representations or descriptions of excretory functions and/or lewd exhibition of the genitals.

(5) To expose one’s private parts or go nude, or topless (if female) or bottomless in any public place or to procure, counsel, or assist any other person to so expose themselves.

(6) To urinate or stool in any public place (except public restrooms) or in any place exposed to public view or to procure, counsel, or aid any other person to so do.

(7) To possess, import, write, compose, stereotype, print, design, copy, draw, paint, or otherwise prepare, publish, offer for sale, display, exhibit by machine or otherwise or distribute or furnish any writing, paper, book, picture, magazine, pamphlet, print, design, figure, still or motion picture, photograph, or negative thereof, photocopy, engraving, sound or video recording, card, instrument or other such article which depicts or represents or describes any obscene sexual conduct, or obscene performance or sadomasochistic abuse, with the intent to distribute or exhibit the same or use the same for advertising purposes, or to exhibit the same in any public place.

(8) To buy, procure, receive or possess any writing, paper, book, picture, drawing, magazine, pamphlet, print, design, figure, still or motion picture, photograph or negative thereof, photocopy, engraving, sound or video recording, card instrument or other article which depicts or represents or describes obscene sexual conduct and/or obscene performance, obscenities or sadomasochistic abuse with the intent to distribute or exhibit the same, or to exhibit the same in any public place, or use the same for advertising purposes.

(9) For any person, firm, or corporation to distribute or to exhibit any materials as obscene materials, whether or not the same are actually obscene, or to advertise as obscene any publications, film, picture or writing when the act of so doing shall amount to pandering or advertising of obscene materials.

(10) For any distributor or wholesaler to require as a condition to a sale, allocation, consignment or delivery for resale of any paper, magazine, book, periodical, publication, film, or other merchandise that the purchaser, consignee, or distributor receive any other material, which is obscene or is believed by the purchaser or consignee to be obscene or is advertised by the distributor to be obscene or to deny or threaten to deny any franchise, license, distributorship or contract or revoke or threaten to revoke or impose any penalties financially or otherwise, by reason of a failure or refusal of such purchaser or consignee, to accept such materials or to do such acts by reason of the return of said materials.

(Am 2006-49, Am 2021-27)