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For purposes of this chapter, any activity is obscene: <br /> 1. Which the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would <br /> find, when considered as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest; and <br /> 2. Which explicitly depicts or describes patently offensive representations or <br /> descriptions of <br /> a. Ultimate sexual acts, normal or perverted, actual or stimulated, or <br /> b. Masturbation, fellatio, cunnilingus, bestiality, excretory functions or lewd <br /> exhibition of the genitals or genital area, or <br /> c. Violent or destructive sexual acts including but not limited to human or animal <br /> mutilation, dismemberment, rape or torture; and <br /> 3. Which, when considered as a whole, and in the context in which it is used, lacks <br /> serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value. For purposes of this chapter, an <br /> activity is dramatic if the activity is of, relating to, devoted to, or concerned specifically or <br /> professionally with current drama or the contemporary theater. <br /> Section 4: Severability. <br /> Should any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance or <br /> its application to any person or situation be declared unconstitutional or invalid for any <br /> reason, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this <br /> ordinance or its application to any other person or situation. The City Council of the City <br /> of Everett hereby declares that it would have adopted this ordinance and each section, <br /> subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion thereof irrespective of the fact that any one <br /> or more sections, subsections, clauses, phrases or portions be declared invalid or <br /> unconstitutional. <br /> ED • • D D. ' NSEN, Mayor <br /> ATT, ST: <br /> CIT'' CLERK <br /> Passed: 05/29/96 <br /> Valid: 06/03/96 <br /> Published: 06/12/96 <br /> Effective: 06/19/96 <br /> ORDINANCE AMENDING ADULT ENTERTAINMENT REGULATIONS PAGE 6 <br />