§ 32-18. Obscene live conduct.  


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  • Any individual, partnership, firm, association, corporation or other legal entity who knowingly produces, sponsors, manages, directs, presents, or engages in, performs, or participates in any live obscene conduct, in any public place or in a place exposed to public view, or in any place open to the public or to a segment thereof, in the presence of any other person or persons who have paid a consideration of any type whatsoever, or presented a membership card or other token, to observe the conduct; and any owner, lessee or manager of any premises who knowingly permits the same to be used for any of the activities described above shall be subject to punishment for a class A violation as set forth in section 1-19 of chapter 1 of the County Code. Each day a violation continues to exist shall constitute a separate offense.
    For the purpose of this section, “obscene live conduct” shall be defined as live conduct, the dominant theme of which, when taken as a whole: (a) Appeals to the prurient interest in sex; (b) is so patently offensive that it affronts contemporary community standards relating to the representation of sexual matters; and (c) lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value. (1981 L.M.C., ch. 46, § 1; 1983 L.M.C., ch. 22, § 41.)