Title 12 — STREETS AND SIDEWALKS
Chapter 12.22 — PROHIBITED DISPLAYS IN PUBLICATIONS
Burlingame Municipal Code · 2026-09 edition · updated 2026-10-02 · Burlingame
§ 12.22.010. Prohibited displays.¶
No person shall sell, offer for sale or keep or maintain any publication in any newsrack on any public right-of-way in such a manner as to expose to the public view any of the following:
(a) Any statements or words describing explicit sexual acts, sexual organs or excrement where such statements or words have as their purpose or effect sexual arousal, gratification or affront;
(b) Any picture or illustration of genitals, pubic hair, perineums, anuses or anal regions of any person where such picture or illustration has as its purpose or effect sexual arousal, gratification or affront;
(c) Any picture or illustration depicting explicit sexual acts where such picture or illustration has as its purpose or effect sexual arousal, gratification or affront.
"Explicit sexual acts," as used in this section, means depictions of sexual intercourse, oral copulation, anal intercourse, oral-anal copulations, bestiality, sadism, masochism or excretory functions in conjunction with sexual activity, masturbation or lewd exhibition of the genitals, whether any of the above conduct is depicted or described as being performed alone or between members of the same or opposite sex or between humans and animals, or other act of sexual arousal involving any physical contact with a person's genital, pubic region, pubic hair, perineum, anus or anal region.
(Ord. 1288 § 1, (1984))
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