Legislation Details

File #: ORD-1902:005    Version: 1 Name: Obscenities to be a misdemeanor and setting fines
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 5/26/1902 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 5/26/1902
Title: ORDINANCE DECLARING OBSCENITIES TO BE A MISDEMEANOR AND SETTING FINES
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ORDINANCE DECLARING OBSCENITIES TO BE A MISDEMEANOR AND SETTING FINES

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Every person who shall appear in any public place naked or partly so, with the intent of making a public exhibition of his nudity, or who shall make any obscene exhibition of his person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

 

Every person publicly exhibiting any obscene or indecent picture or figures shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

 

Every person convicted under the provisions of the two preceding sections shall be fined in any sum not less than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars.

 

Whoever shall go to the domicile or usual place of abode of any person, or who being at the domicile or usual place of abode of any person, shall utter and public vulgar and profane language, or shall make any vulgar exhibition in the presence of any person then and there being, or shall make violent threats against any person usually dwelling at such place, with intent to insult or terrify any person whomsoever, shall, on conviction thereof, be fined in any sum not less than twenty nor more than two hundred dollars.

 

Passed and approved this 26th day of May, 1902.