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91 Obscenit and Sex Offenses 533.13
<br />533.12 PANDERING OBSCENITY.
<br />(a) No person, with knowledge of the character of the material or performance
<br />involved, shall do any of the following:
<br />(1) Create, reproduce or publish any obscene material, when the offender
<br />knows that such material is to be used for commercial exploitation or will
<br />be publicly disseminated or displayed, or when he is reckless in that .regard;
<br />(2) Promote or advertise for sale, .delivery or dissemination; sell, deliver,
<br />publicly disseminate, publicly display, exhibit, present, rent or provide;
<br />or offer or agree to sell, deliver, publicly disseminate, publicly display,
<br />exhibit, present, rent or provide, any obscene material;
<br />(3) Create, direct or produce an obscene performance, when the offender
<br />knows that it is to be used for commercial exploitation or will be
<br />publicly presented, or when he is reckless in that regard;
<br />(4) Advertise or promote an obscene performance for presentation, or present
<br />or participate in presenting an obscene performance, when such performance
<br />is presented publicly, or when admission is charged;
<br />(5) Buy, procure, possess or control any obscene material with purpose to
<br />violate subsection.(a)(2) or (4) hereof.
<br />(b) It is an affirmative defense to a charge under this section, that the material. or
<br />performance involved was disseminated or presented for a bona fide medical, scientific,
<br />educational, religious, governmental, judicial or other proper. purpose, by or to a physician,
<br />psychologist, sociologist, scientist, teacher, person pursuing bona fide studies or research,
<br />librarian, clergyman, prosecutor, judge or other person having a proper interest in such
<br />material or performance.
<br />(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of pandering obscenity, a misdemeanor of
<br />the first degree, if the offender has not previously been convicted of a violation of this
<br />section, Section 533.11 or Ohio R. C. 2907.31 or 2907.32. (ORC 2907.32)
<br />533.13 DECEPTION TO OBTAIN MATTER HARMFUL TO JUVENILES.
<br />(a) No person, for the purpose of enabling a juvenile to obtain any material or gain
<br />admission to any performance which is harmful to juveniles shall do either of the following:
<br />(1) Falsely represent that he is the parent, guardian or spouse of such juvenile;
<br />(2) Furnish such juvenile with any identification or document purporting to show
<br />that such juvenile is eighteen years of age or over or married.
<br />(b) No juvenile, for the purpose of obtaining any material or gaining admission to any
<br />performance which is harmful to juveniles, shall do. either of the following:
<br />(1) Falsely represent that he is eighteen years of age or over or married;
<br />(2) Exhibit any identification or document purporting to show that he is eighteen
<br />years of age or over or married. .
<br />- (c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of deception to obtain matter harmful to
<br />juveniles, a misdemeanor of the second degree. A juvenile who violates subsection (b)
<br />hereof shall be adjudged an unruly child, with such disposition of the case as may be
<br />appropriate under Ohio R. C. Chapter 2151, (ORC 2907.33)
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