A. Every owner or operator of an outdoor theater in this state is guilty of a misdemeanor who shows or causes to be shown a motion picture depicting:
1. Any person, whether nude or clad, in an act or simulation of an act of sexual intercourse, unnatural copulation or other sexual activity including the showing of human genitals in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal, acts of human masturbation, or fondling or other erotic touching of human genitals, pubic region, buttock or female breast; or
2. Nude or partially denuded figures including less than completely and opaquely covered human genitals, pubic regions, buttock and female breast below a point immediately above the top of the areola and including human male genitals in a discernibly turgid state. even if completely and opaquely covered.
B. This section shall be applicable, however, only where the viewing portion of the screen of such theater is situated within the view of any residence or where children under eighteen (18) years of age have an understanding view of the picture.
C. Any prosecution under this section must be preceded by a written complaint from a resident affected by the terms of this act. D. Upon conviction of a violation of this section such person shall be imprisoned in the county jail for not more than one (1) year. or fined not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or be both so imprisoned and fined.
Laws 1970, c. 243, § 1, emerg. eff. April 22, 1970; Laws 1973, c. 63, § 1, emerg. eff. April 27, 1973.
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