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9.37.020 - Definitions.

Part of the Code of Ordinances of Commerce, CA.

Local law · Updated May 13, 2025 · 2,277 sections

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Whenever the following words and phrases are used in this chapter, they shall have the meaning ascribed to them in this section: (1)

"Newsrack" means any self-service or coin-operated box, container, storage unit, or other dispenser installed, used or maintained for the display, sale or distribution of publications.

(2)

"Nudity" means the showing with less than a fully opaque covering of the genitals, pubic hair, buttocks, natal cleft, perineum, anus or anal region of any person, other than a child under the age of puberty, or any portion of the breast at or below the areola thereof of any female person, other than a child under the age of puberty.

(3)

"Sexual conduct" means an act of sexual intercourse, masturbation, homosexuality, sodomy, bestiality, anal intercourse, oral copulation, flagellation, or other act of sexual arousal involving any physical contact with a persons's clothed or unclothed genitals, pubic region, public hair, buttocks, natal cleft, perineum, anus or anal region, or, if such person be a female, breast.

(4)

"Pictorial material" means any material suggesting or conveying a visual image, and includes, but is not limited to, a photograph, painting or drawing.

(5)

"Public right-of-way" means any place of any nature which is dedicated to use by the public for pedestrian or vehicular travel, and includes, but is not limited to, a street, sidewalk, curb, gutter, crossing, intersection, parkway, highway, alley, lane, mall, court, way, avenue, boulevard, road, roadway, viaduct, subway, tunnel, bridge, thoroughfare, park, square, or any other similar public way.

(Ord. 299 §1(part), 1981).