9.37.010 - Purpose and intent.

The council of the City of Commerce finds and declares that: (1)

The public display of pictorial material depicting nudity and sexual conduct in publications contained in newsracks located on public rights-of-way is patently offensive and harmful to passersby when readily visible to them, and is detrimental to a healthy moral environment to which persons of the City of Commerce are entitled.

(2)

Such public displays are thrust indiscriminately on children and unwilling adults and constitute assaults upon individual privacy.

(3)

Every person is entitled to use the public rights-of-way in the City of Commerce without being subjected to such public displays.

(4)

Such public displays constitute a public nuisance.

(5)

The provisions and prohibitions hereinafter contained and enacted are in pursuance of and for the purpose of securing and promoting the public health, morals and general welfare of persons in the city of commerce in their use of public rights-of-way.

(Ord. 299 § 1(part), 1981).