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Home » US Law » 2019 US Virgin Islands Code » Title 14 - Crimes » Chapter 51 - Indecency

§ 1021. Definitions

As used in this chapter: (a) “Obscene” means that to the average person, applying contemporary standards, the predominant appeal of the matter, taken as a whole, is to prurient interest, i.e., a shameful or morbid interest in nudity, sex, or excretion, which goes substantially beyond customary limits of candor in description or representation of such […]

§ 1022. Obscene and indecent conduct

Whoever— (a) (1) exposes his person or the private parts thereof in any public place, or in any place where there are present other persons to be offended or annoyed thereby, or who exposes himself or takes part in any model artist exhibition, or makes any other exhibition of himself to public view or to […]

§ 1023. Public performances

Whoever as owner, manager or operator of a place of public entertainment shall present a public performance or exhibition, open to the public, which violates any provisions of section 1021 of this title shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned not more than 30 days, or both.

§ 1024. Distribution; printing, exhibiting, distributing or possessing

(a) Every person who knowingly, sends or causes to be sent, or brings or causes to be brought, into the Virgin Islands for sale or distribution, or in the Virgin Islands prepares, publishes, prints, exhibits, distributes, or offers to distribute, or has in his possession with intent to distribute or to exhibit or offer to […]

§ 1025. Distribution or exhibition to minor under 18

(a) Every person who, with knowledge that a person is a minor under 18 years of age, or who, while in possession of such facts that he should reasonably know that such person is a minor under 18 years of age, knowingly distributes to, or sends or causes to be sent to, or exhibits to, […]

§ 1026. Drive-in theater exhibitions visible to non-patrons

Any person who owns, operates or manages a drive-in theater at which is exhibited any motion picture, slide or other exhibit in which the human male or female bare buttocks, human female bare breasts, or human male or female bare pubic areas are shown in an erotic and/or sexually explicit manner or context, if such […]

§ 1027. Employment of minor to perform prohibited acts

(a) Every person who (i) with knowledge that a person is a minor, or (ii) while in possession of such facts that he should reasonably know that such person is a minor, or (iii) any parent or guardian who has a minor under his or her control, knowingly permits, promotes, employs, uses, persuades, induces, or […]