Westminster Municipal Code Ch. 9.16 Nudity

This chapter is adopted pursuant to Sections 318.5 and 318.6 of the Penal Code. All words used in this chapter which also are used in said Sections 318.5 and 318.6 are used in the same sense and mean the same as the respective words used in Sections 318.5 and 318.6 of the Penal Code.

(Prior code § 3507.1(a))

Every female is guilty of a misdemeanor who, while participating in any live act, demonstration or exhibition in any public place, place open to the public, or place open to public view, or while serving food or drink, or both to any customer:

A. Exposes any portion of either breast below a straight line so drawn that both nipples and all portions of both breasts which have a different pigmentation than that of the main portion of the breasts are below such straight line; or

B. Employs any device or covering which is intended to simulate such portions of the breast; or

C. Wears any type of clothing so that any portion of such part of the breast may be observed.

(Prior code § 3507.1(c))

Every person is guilty of a misdemeanor who:

A. Exposes his or her private parts or buttocks, or employs any device or covering which is intended to simulate the private parts or pubic hair of such person, while participating in any live act, demonstration or exhibition in any public place, place open to the public, or place open to public view, or while serving food or drink or both to any customer; or

B. Permits, procures or assists any person to so expose himself or herself, or to employ any such device.

(Prior code § 3507.1(d))

Every person is guilty of a misdemeanor who permits, counsels, or assists any person to violate any provision of this chapter.

(Prior code § 3507.1(e))

This chapter does not apply to:

A. A theater, concert hall, or similar establishment which is primarily devoted to theatrical performances;

B. Any act authorized or prohibited by any state statute.

(Prior code § 3507.1(f))

No person shall, as owner, manager, lessee, director, promoter or agent, or in any capacity, hire or lease or permit any land, building or premises in the city, of which he is the owner, lessee or tenant or over which he has control, to be used as a nudist camp.

(Prior code § 3507)

No person shall operate, conduct, manage or carry on or cause to be conducted, managed or carried on the operation of a nudist camp in the city.

(Prior code § 3508)

No person shall willfully expose his or her private parts to other persons in a nudist camp, and no person shall aid or abet any such act or any person to perform or engage in such act or procure another to perform or engage in such act.

(Prior code § 3509)

No persons shall urinate or defecate in a:

A. Public place;

B. Place open to the public or exposed to public view; or

C. Private place entered without consent of the owner, his agent, or the person in lawful possession thereof.

(Ord. 2114 § 2, 1989)