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The following words and phrases shall be defined as follows in connection with the interpretation and construction of this chapter:

A. “Drive-in theater” means a place where motion pictures or movies are presented outdoors to an audience which may and is intended to view the motion picture while in their automobile or other motor vehicle.

B. “Nudity” means the showing with less than a fully opaque covering of the genitals, pubic hair, buttocks, natal cleft, perineum, or anus of the 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, or the showing of covered male genitals in a discernibly aroused or turgid state.

C. “Offensive” means that the motion picture or movie in which the nudity or sexually explicit act appears or is shown, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest and patently depicts or shows such nudity or sexually explicit act in a manner which, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.

D. “Screen” means any surface in a drive-in theater whereon a picture or other medium of expression is projected for the viewing of an audience.

E. “Sexually explicit acts” means acts or simulated acts of sexual intercourse, masturbation, oral copulation, anal or rectal intercourse, fellatio, cunnilingus, annilingus, sodomy, bestiality, direct physical stimulation, fondling or touching of uncovered or unclothed genitals or pubic regions of a male or female person, and flagellation or torture by or upon a person in the context of a sexual relationship or sexual stimulation.

F. “X-rated motion picture” means motion picture or movie which has received and had imposed upon it a rating or designation of “X” by the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc., or any similar successor organization; or which has had a rating or designation of “X” or “for adults only” imposed upon it by the producer, distributor or exhibitor of such motion picture or movie; or which is advertised by the exhibitor or operator of a theater showing such movie as being “X-rated,” “for adults only” or any other designation or rating of a like nature. (Ord. 77-3 § 3, 1977)