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AR Code § 5-68-203 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 5 - Criminal Offenses|Subtitle 6 - Offenses Against Public Health, Safety, or Welfare|Chapter 68 - Obscenity|Subchapter 2 - Offenses Generally|§ 5-68-203. Obscene films

 (a) It is unlawful for any person to knowingly exhibit, sell, offer to sell, give away, circulate, produce, distribute, attempt to distribute, or have in his or her possession any obscene film.  (b) As used in this section:  (1) “Film” means motion picture film, still picture film, slides, and movie film of any type;  (2) “Obscene” means that to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest; and  (3) “Person” means any individual, partnership, firm, association, club, corporation, or other legal entity.    (c)  (1) Any person that knowingly exhibits, sells, offers to sell, gives away, circulates, produces, distributes, or attempts to distribute any obscene film is guilty of a Class D felony.  (2) Any person that has in his or her possession an obscene film is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.
AR Code § 5-68-204 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 5 - Criminal Offenses|Subtitle 6 - Offenses Against Public Health, Safety, or Welfare|Chapter 68 - Obscenity|Subchapter 2 - Offenses Generally|§ 5-68-204. Nudism

 (a) As used in this section, “nudism” means the act or acts of a person or persons congregating or gathering with his, her, or their private parts exposed in the presence of one (1) or more persons of the opposite sex as a form of social practice.  (b) The provisions of this section do not apply to the enumerated acts if:  (1) The purpose of the person committing the act or acts is to render medical or surgical treatment or to determine the need for medical or surgical treatment or to cleanse such sexual part, and the person committing the act:  (A) Is a licensed physician, as defined by § 17-80-101, or any such physician of a sister state making a professional call into Arkansas;  (B) Committed the act under the professional direction of any physician described in subdivision (b)(1)(A) of this section; or  (C) Is a nurse duly registered or licensed by the Arkansas State Board of Nursing; or    (2) The persons are married legally one to another.    (c) It is unlawful for any:  (1) Person, club, camp, corporation, partnership, association, or organization to advocate, demonstrate, or promote nudism; or  (2) Person to rent, lease, or otherwise permit his or her land, premises, or buildings to be used for the purpose of advocating, demonstrating, or promoting nudism.    (d) Any person, club, camp, corporation, partnership, association, or organization violating any provision of this section is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor for each offense.  (e) This section does not repeal any existing laws of the State of Arkansas except those in direct conflict with this section but this section is cumulative to the existing laws of the State of Arkansas.
AR Code § 5-68-205 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 5 - Criminal Offenses|Subtitle 6 - Offenses Against Public Health, Safety, or Welfare|Chapter 68 - Obscenity|Subchapter 2 - Offenses Generally|§ 5-68-205. Public display of obscenity

 (a)  (1) As used in this subsection:  (A) “Obscene” means the same as “obscene material” defined by § 5-68-302; and  (B) “Obscenity” means an obscene sticker, painting, decal, emblem, or other device that is or contains an obscene writing, description, photograph, or depiction.    (2) A person commits the offense of publicly displaying an obscenity if the person knowingly causes an obscenity to be displayed in a manner that is readily visible to the public and the obscenity's content or character is distinguishable by normal vision.  (3) Publicly displaying an obscenity is a Class B misdemeanor.    (b)  (1) It is unlawful to publicly display obscene material as defined by § 5-68-302 on any motor vehicle or wearing apparel.  (2) A violation of this subsection is a Class C misdemeanor.
AR Code § 5-68-301 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 5 - Criminal Offenses|Subtitle 6 - Offenses Against Public Health, Safety, or Welfare|Chapter 68 - Obscenity|Subchapter 3 - State Standards Defining and Regulating Obscenity|§ 5-68-301. Legislative declaration

 (a) The General Assembly finds and declares that:  (1) The definition and regulation of obscenity are matters of statewide concern;  (2) In defining and regulating obscenity, a statewide standard is workable; and  (3) There is a need for clarification of the applicable law relating to the definition and regulation of obscenity.    (b)  (1) To this end, it is the intent of this subchapter to impose a statewide standard for the definition and regulation of obscenity that is applicable throughout the state and all political subdivisions.  (2) No political subdivision shall enact any ordinance, rule, or regulation in conflict with a provision of this subchapter.
AR Code § 5-68-302 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 5 - Criminal Offenses|Subtitle 6 - Offenses Against Public Health, Safety, or Welfare|Chapter 68 - Obscenity|Subchapter 3 - State Standards Defining and Regulating Obscenity|§ 5-68-302. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter:   (1) “Advertising purposes” means a purpose of propagandizing in connection with the commercial sale of a product or type of product, the commercial offering of a service, or the commercial exhibition of an entertainment;  (2) “Hard-core sexual conduct” means a patently offensive act, exhibition, representation, depiction, or description of:  (A) An intrusion, however slight, actual or simulated, by any object, any part of an animal's body, or any part of a person's body into the genital or anal opening of any person's body; or  (B) Cunnilingus, fellatio, anilingus, bestiality, a lewd exhibition of genitals, or an excretory function, actual or simulated;    (3) “Live public show” means a public show in which a human being, an animal, or both appear bodily before a spectator or customer;  (4) “Obscene material” means a material that:  (A) Depicts or describes in a patently offensive manner sadomasochistic abuse, sexual conduct, or hard-core sexual conduct;  (B) Taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest of the average person, applying contemporary statewide standards; and  (C) Taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value;    (5) “Obscene performance” means a play, motion picture, dance, show, or other presentation, whether pictured, animated, or live, performed before an audience and that in whole or in part depicts, or reveals, sexual conduct, hard-core sexual conduct, or sadomasochistic abuse, or that includes an explicit verbal description or a narrative account of sexual conduct or hard-core sexual conduct, and that:  (A) Depicts or describes in a patently offensive manner sadomasochistic abuse, sexual conduct, or hard-core sexual conduct;  (B) Taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest of the average person, applying contemporary statewide standards; and  (C) Taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value;    (6) “Promote” means to produce, direct, perform in, manufacture, issue, sell, give, provide, lend, mail, deliver, transfer, publish, distribute, circulate, disseminate, present, exhibit, or advertise, for consideration, or to offer or agree to do any of these things for consideration;  (7) “Public show” means any entertainment or exhibition advertised or in some other fashion held out to be accessible to the public or member of a club, regardless of whether an admission or other charge is levied or collected and regardless of whether a minor is admitted or excluded;  (8) “Sadomasochistic abuse” means flagellation, mutilation, or torture by or upon a person who is nude or clad in an undergarment or in revealing or bizarre costume, or the condition of being fettered, bound, or otherwise physically restrained on the part of a person so clothed, in a sexual context; and  (9) “Sexual conduct” means human masturbation or sexual intercourse.
AR Code § 5-68-303 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 5 - Criminal Offenses|Subtitle 6 - Offenses Against Public Health, Safety, or Welfare|Chapter 68 - Obscenity|Subchapter 3 - State Standards Defining and Regulating Obscenity|§ 5-68-303. Promoting obscene materials

 (a) Except as otherwise provided in § 5-68-308, a person commits promoting obscene materials if he or she knowingly promotes, or has in his or her possession with intent to promote, any obscene material.  (b) As used in this section, “material” means any writing, picture, motion picture, film, slide, drawing, or other visual reproduction.  (c) Promoting obscene materials is a Class D felony.
AR Code § 5-68-304 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 5 - Criminal Offenses|Subtitle 6 - Offenses Against Public Health, Safety, or Welfare|Chapter 68 - Obscenity|Subchapter 3 - State Standards Defining and Regulating Obscenity|§ 5-68-304. Promoting obscene performance

 (a) A person commits promoting an obscene performance if he or she knowingly:  (1) Directs, manages, finances, or presents an obscene performance; or  (2) Promotes any obscene performance, as owner, producer, director, manager, or performer.    (b) Promoting an obscene performance is a Class D felony.
AR Code § 5-68-305 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 5 - Criminal Offenses|Subtitle 6 - Offenses Against Public Health, Safety, or Welfare|Chapter 68 - Obscenity|Subchapter 3 - State Standards Defining and Regulating Obscenity|§ 5-68-305. Obscene performance at a live public show

 (a) A person commits an obscene performance at a live public show if he or she knowingly:  (1) Engages in an obscene performance of sadomasochistic abuse, hard-core sexual conduct, or sexual conduct in a live public show; or  (2) Directs, manages, finances, or presents an obscene performance at a live public show in which a participant engages in sadomasochistic abuse, hard-core sexual conduct, or sexual conduct.    (b) Committing an obscene performance at a live public show is a Class C felony.
AR Code § 5-68-306 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 5 - Criminal Offenses|Subtitle 6 - Offenses Against Public Health, Safety, or Welfare|Chapter 68 - Obscenity|Subchapter 3 - State Standards Defining and Regulating Obscenity|§ 5-68-306. Publicly displaying obscene material for advertising purposes

 (a) Except as otherwise provided in § 5-68-308, a person commits publicly displaying obscene material for advertising purposes if, for advertising purposes, he or she knowingly:  (1) Displays publicly or causes to be displayed publicly obscene material; or  (2) Permits any display of obscene material on premises owned, rented, or operated by him or her.    (b) “Displays publicly” means the exposing, placing, posting, exhibiting, or in any fashion displaying in any location, whether public or private, an item in such a manner that it may be readily seen and its content or character distinguished by normal unaided vision viewing it from a public thoroughfare or a vehicle on a public thoroughfare.  (c) Publicly displaying obscene material for advertising purposes is a Class B misdemeanor.  (d) In any prosecution for violation of this section, it is an affirmative defense for the defendant to prove that the public display was:  (1) Primarily for artistic purposes or as a public service even though in connection with a commercial venture; or  (2) Of nudity, exhibited by a bona fide art, antique, or similar gallery or exhibition and visible in a normal display setting.
AR Code § 5-68-307 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 5 - Criminal Offenses|Subtitle 6 - Offenses Against Public Health, Safety, or Welfare|Chapter 68 - Obscenity|Subchapter 3 - State Standards Defining and Regulating Obscenity|§ 5-68-307. Public display of hard-core sexual conduct

 (a) A person commits a public display of hard-core sexual conduct if he or she knowingly engages in hard-core sexual conduct in an open public place.  (b) Engaging in hard-core sexual conduct in an open public place is a Class D felony.
AR Code § 5-68-308 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 5 - Criminal Offenses|Subtitle 6 - Offenses Against Public Health, Safety, or Welfare|Chapter 68 - Obscenity|Subchapter 3 - State Standards Defining and Regulating Obscenity|§ 5-68-308. Defenses

 (a) No employee is liable to prosecution under this subchapter for promoting or possessing with intent to promote any obscene motion picture if the employee is acting within the scope of his or her regular employment.  (b)  (1) As used in subsection (a) of this section, “employee” means any person regularly employed by an owner or operator of a motion picture theater if the person:  (A) Has no financial interest other than salary or wages in the ownership or operation of the motion picture theater;  (B) Has no financial interest in or control over the selection of a motion picture shown in the theater; and  (C) Is working within the motion picture theater where he or she is regularly employed.    (2) However, “employee” does not include a manager of a motion picture theater.    (c) No employee, director, or trustee of a bona fide school, museum, or public library, acting within the scope of his or her regular employment, is liable to prosecution for a violation of this subchapter for disseminating a writing, film, slide, drawing, or other visual reproduction that is claimed to be obscene.
AR Code § 5-68-401 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 5 - Criminal Offenses|Subtitle 6 - Offenses Against Public Health, Safety, or Welfare|Chapter 68 - Obscenity|Subchapter 4 - Arkansas Law on Obscenity|§ 5-68-401. Title

 This subchapter shall be known as the “Arkansas Law on Obscenity” and may be referred to by that designation.
AR Code § 5-68-402 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 5 - Criminal Offenses|Subtitle 6 - Offenses Against Public Health, Safety, or Welfare|Chapter 68 - Obscenity|Subchapter 4 - Arkansas Law on Obscenity|§ 5-68-402. Purpose and intent

 (a) The General Assembly determines that during the past several years, the spread of obscene publications has become a matter of increasingly grave concern to the people of this state.  (b) The elimination of this evil and the consequent protection of the citizens and residents of this state against those publications are in the best interests of the morals and general welfare of the people.  (c) The accomplishment of these ends can best be achieved by providing prosecuting attorneys both with a speedy civil remedy for obtaining a judicial determination of the character and contents of publications and with an effective power to reach nonresidents responsible for the composition, publication, and distribution of obscene publications within the state.
AR Code § 5-68-403 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 5 - Criminal Offenses|Subtitle 6 - Offenses Against Public Health, Safety, or Welfare|Chapter 68 - Obscenity|Subchapter 4 - Arkansas Law on Obscenity|§ 5-68-403. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter:   (1) “Mailable matter” means:  (A) Printed or written matter or material having second-class mailing privileges under the laws of the United States; or  (B) Any other printed or written matter or material that has not been determined to be nonmailable under the laws of the United States;    (2) “Obscene” means that to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest;  (3) “Person” means any individual, partnership, firm, association, corporation, or other legal entity; and  (4)  (A) “Printed or written matter or material” means any book, pamphlet, magazine, periodical, newspaper, picture magazine, comic book, story paper, or other printed or written matter.  (B) “Printed or written matter or material” does not include written or printed matter or material used by or in any recognized religious, scientific, or educational institution.
AR Code § 5-68-404 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 5 - Criminal Offenses|Subtitle 6 - Offenses Against Public Health, Safety, or Welfare|Chapter 68 - Obscenity|Subchapter 4 - Arkansas Law on Obscenity|§ 5-68-404. Mailable matter subject to provisions of subchapter

 Any mailable matter that is sent or caused to be sent, brought, or caused to be brought into this state for sale or commercial distribution or that in this state is sold, exhibited or commercially distributed, given away, or offered to be given away, by any person with knowledge of the judgment, or is in the possession of any person with knowledge of the judgment with intent to sell or commercially distribute or exhibit or give away or offer to give away, is subject to the provisions of § 5-68-405.
AR Code § 5-68-405 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 5 - Criminal Offenses|Subtitle 6 - Offenses Against Public Health, Safety, or Welfare|Chapter 68 - Obscenity|Subchapter 4 - Arkansas Law on Obscenity|§ 5-68-405. Possession, sale, or distribution

 (a) Any person that, with knowledge of its contents, sends or causes to be sent or brings or causes to be brought into this state for sale or commercial distribution, or in this state prepares, publishes, sells, exhibits, or commercially distributes, or gives away or offers to give away or has in the person's possession with intent to sell or commercially distribute or to exhibit or to give away, any obscene printed or written matter or material other than mailable matter, or any mailable matter known by the person to have been judicially found to be obscene under this subchapter, or that knowingly informs another of when, where, how, or from whom or by what means any of these things can be purchased or obtained, is guilty of a Class D felony.  (b) Any person that, with knowledge of its contents, has in the person's possession any obscene printed or written matter or material other than mailable matter, or any mailable matter known by that person to have been judicially found to be obscene under this subchapter, is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.
AR Code § 5-68-406 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 5 - Criminal Offenses|Subtitle 6 - Offenses Against Public Health, Safety, or Welfare|Chapter 68 - Obscenity|Subchapter 4 - Arkansas Law on Obscenity|§ 5-68-406. Action to determine obscenity

 The prosecuting attorney for the county where obscene mailable matter is sent or caused to be sent, brought, or caused to be brought or where it is prepared, sold, exhibited or commercially distributed, or given away or offered to be given away or possessed shall institute an action in the circuit court for that county for an adjudication of the obscenity of the mailable matter if the prosecuting attorney has reasonable cause to believe that any person with knowledge of its contents is:   (1) Engaged in sending obscene mailable matter, causing it to be sent, bringing or causing it to be brought, into this state for sale or commercial distribution; or  (2) In this state preparing, selling, exhibiting or commercially distributing obscene mailable matter, giving it away, offering to give it away, or has it in the person's possession with intent to sell, commercially distribute, exhibit, give it away, or offer to give it away.
AR Code § 5-68-407 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 5 - Criminal Offenses|Subtitle 6 - Offenses Against Public Health, Safety, or Welfare|Chapter 68 - Obscenity|Subchapter 4 - Arkansas Law on Obscenity|§ 5-68-407. Complaint

 (a) The action authorized in § 5-68-406 is commenced by the filing of a complaint to which is attached as an exhibit a true copy of the allegedly obscene mailable matter.  (b) The complaint shall:  (1) Be directed against the mailable matter by name or description;  (2) Allege the mailable matter's obscene nature;  (3) Designate as respondents and list the names and addresses, if known, of the mailable matter's author, publisher, and any other person sending or causing it to be sent, bringing, or causing it to be brought into this state for sale or commercial distribution and of any person in this state preparing, selling, exhibiting, or commercially distributing it or giving away or offering to give it away, or possessing it with intent to sell or commercially distribute or exhibit or give away or offer to give it away;  (4) Pray for an adjudication that the mailable matter is obscene;  (5) Pray for a permanent injunction against any person sending or causing the mailable matter to be sent, bringing, or causing it to be brought into this state for sale or commercial distribution, or in this state preparing, selling, exhibiting, or commercially distributing it, giving away or offering to give it away, or possessing it with intent to sell or commercially distribute or exhibit or give away or offer to give it away; and  (6) Pray for the mailable matter's surrender, seizure, and destruction.
AR Code § 5-68-408 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 5 - Criminal Offenses|Subtitle 6 - Offenses Against Public Health, Safety, or Welfare|Chapter 68 - Obscenity|Subchapter 4 - Arkansas Law on Obscenity|§ 5-68-408. Order to show cause

 (a) Upon the filing of the complaint described in § 5-68-407, the prosecuting attorney shall present the complaint, including the exhibit to the complaint, as soon as practicable to the circuit court for its examination.  (b) If there is no probable cause to believe that the mailable matter described in the complaint is obscene, the circuit court shall dismiss the complaint.  (c) If the circuit court finds probable cause to believe the mailable matter to be obscene, it shall issue an order to show cause why the mailable matter shall not be adjudicated obscene, returnable not less than ten (10) days after the order's service, directed against the mailable matter by name or description and directing the service of a copy of the order, together with a copy of the complaint upon the mailable matter and upon each of the respondents named in the complaint.  (d) Service of the order shall be made upon the mailable matter at its place of publication or its editorial offices as shown in the order.  (e) Service of the order or any copy of the order may be made in any manner provided by law, and in case of mailable matter published or edited outside of the State of Arkansas and of any nonresident respondent, by registered or certified mail directed to the mailable matter of the respondent to be served at the address shown in the complaint.  (f) Proof of the mailing is deemed to be prima facie evidence of service of the order or a copy of the order upon the mailable matter or any respondent for the purposes of this section.
AR Code § 5-68-409 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 5 - Criminal Offenses|Subtitle 6 - Offenses Against Public Health, Safety, or Welfare|Chapter 68 - Obscenity|Subchapter 4 - Arkansas Law on Obscenity|§ 5-68-409. Answer — Trial date

 (a) On or before the return date specified in the order to show cause, the mailable matter and each respondent may file an answer or other defense.  (b) By order, the circuit court may permit any person to appear and file an answer as amicus curiae.  (c) If no person files an answer or other defense on or before the return date specified in the order to show cause, the circuit court may immediately determine whether the mailable matter is obscene and enter an appropriate judgment.  (d) Upon the expiration of the time for filing an answer or other defense by the mailable matter and all respondents, and, upon the circuit court's own motion or upon the application of any party, the circuit court may set a date for the trial of the issues joined.
AR Code § 5-68-410 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 5 - Criminal Offenses|Subtitle 6 - Offenses Against Public Health, Safety, or Welfare|Chapter 68 - Obscenity|Subchapter 4 - Arkansas Law on Obscenity|§ 5-68-410. Trial procedure

 (a) The public interest requires that any action prescribed in this subchapter, other than a criminal action under § 5-68-405, be heard and disposed of with the maximum promptness and dispatch commensurate with constitutional requirements, including due process, freedom of the press, and freedom of speech.  (b) The rules of civil procedure pertaining to equity cases are applicable to the trial of an action prescribed in this subchapter, other than a criminal action under § 5-68-405.