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Idaho Code § 52-103

Moral nuisances — Definitions

Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Lefevers v. State (2000)

Most recently applied in Lefevers v. State (June 2000)

I.C., § 52-103, as added by 1976, ch. 82, § 2, p. 270.

As used in title 52, Idaho Code, relating to moral nuisances.

(1) which the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find, when considered as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest; and

(2) which depicts or describes patently offensive representations or descriptions of: ultimate sexual acts, normal or perverted, actual or simulated; or

(3) masturbation, excretory functions, or lewd exhibition of the genitals or genital area. film or plate negative;

(4) film or plate positive;

(5) film designed to be projected on a screen for exhibition;

(6) films, glass slides or transparencies, either in negative or positive form, designed for exhibition by projection on a screen.[;]

(7) video tape or any other medium used to electronically reproduce images on a screen. Any and every place in the state where lewd films are publicly exhibited as a regular course of business, or possessed for the purpose of such exhibition;

(8) Any and every place in the state where a lewd film is publicly and repeatedly exhibited, or possessed for the purpose of such exhibition;

(9) Any and every lewd film which is publicly exhibited, or possessed for such purpose at a place which is a moral nuisance under this section;

(10) Any and every place of business in the state in which lewd publications constitute a principal part of the stock in trade;

(11) Any and every lewd publication possessed at a place which is a moral nuisance under this section; and

(12) Every place which, as a regular course of business, is used for the purposes of lewdness, assignation, or prostitution, and every such place in or upon which acts of lewdness, assignation, or prostitution, are held or occur.

Nothing herein contained is intended to include or proscribe any matter which, when considered as a whole, and in the context in which it is used, possesses serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.

Current official text: Idaho Statutes (Idaho Legislature). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Idaho statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.