Every person who knowingly engages or participates in, manages, produces, sponsors, presents or exhibits obscene live conduct to or before an assembly or audience consisting of at least one person or spectator in any public place or in any place exposed to public view, or in any place open to the public or to a segment thereof, whether or not an admission fee is charged, or whether or not attendance is conditioned upon the presentation of a membership card or other token, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Cal. Penal Code § 311.6
Obscene Matter
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case 1 Cal. 3d 821 - Barrows v. Municipal Court (1970)
Most recently applied in 69 Cal. App. 4th 1 - TINY B., INC. v. City of Newport Beach (December 1998)
Amended by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1072.
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Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.