California · Penal Code

PEN §311.6: Every person who knowingly engages or participates in, manages, produces, sponsors, presents or exhibits obscene live conduct to or before an assembly or audience consisting of at least one person or

Misdemeanor

What this law says, in plain English

A person who knowingly engages in or produces obscene live conduct before an audience of at least one person in a public place or place exposed to public view commits a misdemeanor offense.

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Every person who knowingly engages or participates in, manages, produces, sponsors, presents or exhibits obscene live conduct to or before an assembly or audience consisting of at least one person or spectator in any public place or in any place exposed to public view, or in any place open to the public or to a segment thereof, whether or not an admission fee is charged, or whether or not attendance is conditioned upon the presentation of a membership card or other token, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

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