§ 62-54. Obscenity.  


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  • (a)

    It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, offer for sale or display in any place open to the public, whether for a fee or not, any obscene material.

    (b)

    As used in this section, the term "obscene material" shall include any film, picture, book, magazine, recording or other object which:

    (1)

    The average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest; and

    (2)

    Depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, any ultimate sexual act, whether normal or perverted or actual or simulated, masturbation, excretory functions, sadomasochism or a lewd exhibition of the genitals; and

    (3)

    Taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.

(Code 1960, § 17-11; Code 1981, § 21-24)

State law reference

Similar provisions, C.R.S. §§ 18-7-101, 18-7-103.