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New Jersey Statutes Title 2C. The New Jersey Code of Criminal Justice 2C § 34-2

Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by FindLaw Staff

Obscenity for Persons 18 Years of Age or Older.

a. Definitions for purpose of this section:

(1) “Obscene material” means any description, narrative account, display, or depiction of sexual activity or anatomical area contained in, or consisting of, a picture or other representation, publication, sound recording, live performance, or film, which by means of posing, composition, format or animated sensual details:

(a) Depicts or describes in a patently offensive way, ultimate sexual acts, normal or perverted, actual or simulated, masturbation, excretory functions, or lewd exhibition of the genitals,

(b) Lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value, when taken as a whole, and

(c) Is a part of a work, which to the average person applying contemporary community standards, has a dominant theme taken as a whole, which appeals to the prurient interest.

(2) “Exhibit” means the sale of admission to view obscene material.

b. A person who sells, distributes, rents or exhibits obscene material to a person 18 years of age or older commits a crime of the fourth degree. Sale of obscene material shall be deemed to include any form of transaction which results in the admission to a display or depiction of obscene material or temporary or permanent access to any obscene material.

Nothing contained herein or in section 3 of P.L.1995, c. 230 (C. 2C:34-7) shall be construed to prohibit a municipality from adopting as a part of its zoning ordinances an ordinance permitting the sale, distribution, rental or exhibition of obscene material in which event such sale, distribution, rental or exhibition shall be deemed legal.

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