39-17-1002 - Part definitions.
39-17-1002. Part definitions.
The following definitions apply in §§ 39-17-1002 39-17-1007, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) Community means the judicial district, as defined by § 16-2-506, in which a violation is alleged to have occurred;
(2) Material means:
(A) Any picture, drawing, photograph, undeveloped film or film negative, motion picture film, videocassette tape or other pictorial representation;
(B) Any statue, figure, theatrical production or electrical reproduction;
(C) Any image stored on a computer hard drive, a computer disk of any type, or any other medium designed to store information for later retrieval; or
(D) Any image transmitted to a computer or other electronic media or video screen, by telephone line, cable, satellite transmission, or other method that is capable of further transmission, manipulation, storage or accessing, even if not stored or saved at the time of transmission;
(3) Minor means any person who has not reached eighteen (18) years of age;
(4) Patently offensive means that which goes substantially beyond customary limits of candor in describing or representing such matters;
(5) Performance means any play, motion picture, photograph, dance, or other visual representation that can be exhibited before an audience of one (1) or more persons;
(6) Promote means to finance, produce, direct, manufacture, issue, publish, exhibit or advertise, or to offer or agree to do those things;
(7) Prurient interest means a shameful or morbid interest in sex; and
(8) Sexual activity means any of the following acts:
(A) Vaginal, anal or oral intercourse, whether done with another person or an animal;
(B) Masturbation, whether done alone or with another human or an animal;
(C) Patently offensive, as determined by contemporary community standards, physical contact with or touching of a person's clothed or unclothed genitals, pubic area, buttocks or breasts in an act of apparent sexual stimulation or sexual abuse;
(D) Sadomasochistic abuse, including flagellation, torture, physical restraint, domination or subordination by or upon a person for the purpose of sexual gratification of any person;
(E) The insertion of any part of a person's body or of any object into another person's anus or vagina, except when done as part of a recognized medical procedure by a licensed professional;
(F) Patently offensive, as determined by contemporary community standards, conduct, representations, depictions or descriptions of excretory functions; or
(G) Lascivious exhibition of the female breast or the genitals, buttocks, anus or pubic or rectal area of any person.
[Acts 1990, ch. 1092, § 7; 1995, ch. 216, § 1; 1999, ch. 343, §§ 1-4; 2001, ch. 147, § 1; 2005, ch. 496, § 1.]