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§§ 7204-7207
PENAL CODE.
Indecent Exposure, etc.

detains any persons engaged in carrying or accompanying any dead body of a human being to a place of burial, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 7204. Injury to cemetery or tomb. Every person who shall willfully destroy, mutilate, deface, injure or remove any tomb, monument or gravestone or other structure placed in any cemetery or private burying ground, or any fence, railing or other work for the protection or ornament of such cemetery or place of burial of any human being, or tomb, monument or gravestone, memento, or memorial or other structure aforesaid, or of any lot within a cemetery, or shall willfully destroy, cut, break or injure any tree, shrub or plant, within the limits thereof, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof, be punishable by a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

§ 7206. Other laws against dissection. Every person who violates any provision of any enactment of the legislative Assembly of this state now in force or that hereafter may be enacted, not provider for in this code relative to dissection, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

CHAPTER 34.

INDECENT EXPOSURE, OBSCENE EXHIBITIONS, BOOKS AND PRINTS, AND BAWDY AND OTHER DISORDERLY HOUSES.

§ 7206. Indecent exposure. Exhibitions. Pictures. Every person who willfully and lewdly, either:

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,

2. Procures, counsels or assists any person so to expose himself, or to take any part in any model artist exhibition, or to make any other exhibition of himself to public view or to the view of any number of persons, such as is offensive to decency, or is adapted to excite to vicious or lewd thoughts or acts; or,

3. Writes or composes, stereotypes, prints, publishes, sells, distributes or keeps for sale, or exhibits any obscene or indecent writing, paper or book, or designs or copies, draws or engraves, paints or otherwise prepares any obscene or indecent picture or print of any description, or molds, cuts, casts or otherwise makes any obscene or indecent figure or form,

Is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 7207. Seizure of indecent articles. Every person who is authorized or enjoined to arrest any person for a violation of subdivision 3 of the last section, is equally authorized and enjoined to seize any obscene or indecent writing, paper, book, picture, print or figure found in possession or under the control of the person so 1276