TITLE 9 PUBLIC PEACE, MORALS AND WELFARE
Chapter 9-16 Immoral Conduct
9-16-010 Definitions.
9-16-020 Soliciting drinks prohibited.
9-16-030 Indecent exposure prohibited.
9-16-040 Promoting live sexual performances prohibited.
9-16-050 Promoting sadomasochistic performances or material prohibited.
9-16-060 Promoting obscenity to a minor prohibited.
9-16-070 Publicly displaying obscene material prohibited.
9-16-080 Urinating in public prohibited.
9-16-010 Definitions.
For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms,
phrases, words, and their derivations shall have the meanings given in this
section. When not inconsistent with the context, words used in the present
tense include the future, words in the plural number include the singular
number, and words in the singular number include the plural number. The word
shall is always mandatory, and not merely directory.
(A) Adult means a person who has reached his or her
eighteenth birthday.
(B) City means the City of Broomfield.
(C) Commercial purposes means any purposes connected
with the commercial sale of a product or type of product, the commercial
offering of a service, or the commercial exhibition of any form of
entertainment.
(D) Deviate sexual conduct means any act of sexual
gratification between human beings who are not husband and wife, involving
contact of the genital organ of one and the mouth or anus of another.
(E) Display publicly means the exposure, placement,
posting, exhibition, or display, in any fashion, of an item, in any location,
public or private, in such a manner that it may readily be seen and its content
or character distinguished by normal unaided vision from a public thoroughfare,
a vehicle on a public thoroughfare, or the property of another.
(F) Facility means any place or thing which provides
seclusion, privacy, opportunity, protection, comfort, or assistance to or for a
person engaging or intending to engage in sexual intercourse or deviate sexual
activity.
(G) Hard-core sexual conduct means patently offensive
acts, exhibitions, representations, depictions, or descriptions of:
(1) Intrusion, however slight, actual or simulated, by any
object, any part of an animal's body, or any part of a person's body into the
genital or anal openings of any person's body; or
(2) Cunnilingus, fellatio, anilingus, masturbation,
bestiality, lewd exhibition of genitals or excretory functions, actual or
simulated.
(H) Live sexual performance means any live performance
by one or more persons, or a person and an animal, which:
(1) Taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest of the
average person, applying contemporary statewide standards;
(2) Presents or shows hard-core sexual conduct; and
(3) Taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic,
political, or scientific value.
(I) Masturbation means the stimulation of the genital
organs by manual or other bodily contact, exclusive of sexual
intercourse.
(J) Material means any physical object, facsimile,
recording, transcription, pictorial representation, motion picture, or
reproduction, whether mechanical, electrical, or chemical, which is used as a
means of communicating sensation or emotion to human beings to or through the
visual, aural, or tactile senses. The term does not include the printed or
written word, except when used for commercial purposes.
(K) Minor means a person who has not reached his or her
eighteenth birthday.
(L) Obscene material means that material, as defined in
subsection (J) of this section, which:
(1) Taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest of the
average person, applying contemporary statewide standards;
(2) Depicts or describes hard-core sexual conduct;
and
(3) Taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic,
political, or scientific value.
(M) Obscene performance means that performance, as
defined in subsection (N) of this section which:
(1) Taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest of the
average person, applying contemporary statewide standards;
(2) Presents or shows hard-core sexual conduct; and
(3) Taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic,
political, or scientific value.
Obscene performance includes a live sexual performance,
as defined in subsection (H) of this section.
(N) Performance means a presentation or exhibition,
whether live or recorded, in a public place or place open to the
public.
(O) Person means any individual, partnership, firm,
corporation, association, or other legal entity.
(P) Promote means to produce, direct, perform in,
manufacture, issue, sell, give, provide, lend, mail, deliver, transfer, publish,
distribute, circulate, disseminate, present, exhibit, or advertise, whether or
not for consideration, or to offer or agree to do any of these things, whether
or not for consideration.
(Q) Prostitution means the performance, the offer to
perform, or agreement to perform any act of sexual intercourse, fellatio,
cunnilingus, masturbation, or anal intercourse, with any person not the spouse
of such person, in exchange for money or other thing of value.
(R) Public indecency means the performance of any of
the following in a public place or where the conduct may reasonably be expected
to be viewed by the members of the public:
(1) An act of sexual intercourse;
(2) An act of deviate sexual intercourse;
(3) A lewd exposure of the body done with the intent to arouse
or to satisfy the sexual desire of any person; or
(4) A lewd fondling or caress of the body of another
person.
(S) Public place means any street, alley, highway,
sidewalk, park, playground, or place to which the general public has access and
a right to resort for business, entertainment, or other lawful purpose. A
public place shall include, but not be limited to, any store, shop, restaurant,
tavern, bowling alley, cafe, theater, drugstore, poolroom, shopping center, and
any other place devoted to amusement or entertainment of the general public. It
shall also include the front or immediate area of the above.
(T) Sadomasochistic material or sadomasochistic
performance means that material, as defined in subsection (J) of this
section, or performance, as defined in subsection (O) of this section,
which:
(1) Taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest of the
average person, applying contemporary statewide standards;
(2) Depicts, presents, shows, or describes flagellation,
mutilation, or torture, actual or simulated, in a sexual context; and
(3) Taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic,
political, or scientific value. (Ord. 293 §1, 1977)
9-16-020 Soliciting drinks prohibited.
(A) It is unlawful for any person to frequent or loiter in
any tavern, cabaret, nightclub, or other establishment where intoxicants are
sold for the purpose of engaging in the practice of or with the purpose of
soliciting another person to purchase drinks.
(B) It is unlawful for the proprietor or operator of any
such establishment to allow the presence in the establishment of any person who
violates the provisions of this section. (Ord. 293 §4, 1977)
9-16-030 Indecent exposure prohibited.
It is unlawful for any person to intentionally expose his
or her or her genitals to the view of any person under circumstances in which
such conduct is likely to cause affront or alarm to another person or persons.
(Ord. 293 §5, 1977)
9-16-040 Promoting live sexual performances prohibited.
It is unlawful for any person to promote a live sexual
performance in any public place, or in any place where adults or minors may view
such live sexual performance. (Ord. 293 §6, 1977)
9-16-050 Promoting sadomasochistic performances or material prohibited.
It is unlawful for any person to promote sadomasochistic
material or a sadomasochistic performance. A person commits promoting
sadomasochistic material or a sadomasochistic performance if he or she
knowingly:
(A) Promotes, or possesses with intent to promote, any
sadomasochistic material; and
(B) Promotes any sadomasochistic performance. (Ord. 293
§7, 1977)
9-16-060 Promoting obscenity to a minor prohibited.
It is unlawful for any person to promote obscenity to a
minor. A person commits promoting obscenity to a minor if he or she
knowingly:
(A) Promotes, or possesses with intent to promote, any
obscene material to a minor; and
(B) Promotes any obscene performance or live sexual
performance to a minor. (Ord. 293 §8, 1977)
9-16-070 Publicly displaying obscene material prohibited.
It is unlawful for any person to publicly display obscene
material. A person commits publicly displaying obscene material if he or she
knowingly:
(A) Displays publicly or causes to be displayed publicly
obscene material; or
(B) Permits any public display of obscene material on
premises, owned, rented, or operated by him or her. (Ord. 293 §9,
1977)
9-16-080 Urinating in public prohibited.
It is unlawful for any person to urinate in any public way,
or place which is public in nature, or any place within the city open to the
public view. (Ord. 293 §10, 1977)
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