9.04.010 Definitions.
When used in this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings set forth in this section:
“Nudity” is a person’s intentional failure to cover with a fully opaque covering that person’s own genitals, pubic areas, rectal area, or female breast below a point immediately above the top of the areola.
“Public nudity” means nudity in or in view of a public place.
“Public place” is any place which is not:
1. A private residence;
2. A hotel room rented for use as a bedroom;
3. A shower locker room or dressing room associated with a gymnasium, swimming pool or similar facility, if the said shower room, etc., is restricted to members of the same sex;
4. A medical facility in which nudity or partial nudity is required during the course of any medical examination or treatment.
“Fully opaque” means a covering is fully opaque if it is sufficiently opaque to render invisible the skin surface on the parts of the body required to be covered.
“Lewd conduct” is synonymous with obscene conduct, and means any matter:
1. Which the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find, when considered as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest;
2. Which involves patently offensive representations or descriptions of ultimate sexual acts, normal or perverted, actual or simulated; or masturbation, excretory functions, or lewd exhibition of public nudity.
No definition within this section is intended to include or proscribe any matter which, when considered as a whole, and in the context in which it is used, possesses serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value. (Ord. 12-18 § 2, 2012; Ord. 08-29 § 11, 2008; prior code § 13.20.010)