The following definitions apply in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) “Community” means the judicial district, as defined by § 16-2-506, in which a violation is alleged to have occurred;
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 39-17-1002

  • Community: means the judicial district, as defined by §. See Tennessee Code 39-17-1002
  • Minor: means any person who has not reached eighteen (18) years of age. See Tennessee Code 39-17-1002
  • Patently offensive: means that which goes substantially beyond customary limits of candor in describing or representing such matters. See Tennessee Code 39-17-1002
  • Person: includes the singular and the plural and means and includes any individual, firm, partnership, copartnership, association, corporation, governmental subdivision or agency, or other organization or other legal entity, or any agent or servant thereof. See Tennessee Code 39-11-106
(2) “Material” means:

(A) Any picture, drawing, photograph, undeveloped film or film negative, motion picture film, videocassette tape or other pictorial representation;
(B) Any statue, figure, theatrical production or electrical reproduction;
(C) Any image stored on a computer hard drive, a computer disk of any type, or any other medium designed to store information for later retrieval;
(D) Any image transmitted to a computer or other electronic media or video screen, by telephone line, cable, satellite transmission, or other method that is capable of further transmission, manipulation, storage or accessing, even if not stored or saved at the time of transmission; or
(E) Any computer image, or computer-generated image, whether made or produced by electronic, mechanical, or other means;
(3) “Minor” means any person who has not reached eighteen (18) years of age;
(4) “Patently offensive” means that which goes substantially beyond customary limits of candor in describing or representing such matters;
(5) “Performance” means any play, motion picture, photograph, dance, or other visual representation that can be exhibited before an audience of one (1) or more persons;
(6) “Promote” means to finance, produce, direct, manufacture, issue, publish, exhibit or advertise, or to offer or agree to do those things;
(7) “Prurient interest” means a shameful or morbid interest in sex; and
(8) “Sexual activity” means any of the following acts:

(A) Vaginal, anal or oral intercourse, whether done with another person or an animal;
(B) Masturbation, whether done alone or with another human or an animal;
(C) Patently offensive, as determined by contemporary community standards, physical contact with or touching of a person’s clothed or unclothed genitals, pubic area, buttocks or breasts in an act of apparent sexual stimulation or sexual abuse;
(D) Sadomasochistic abuse, including flagellation, torture, physical restraint, domination or subordination by or upon a person for the purpose of sexual gratification of any person;
(E) The insertion of any part of a person’s body or of any object into another person’s anus or vagina, except when done as part of a recognized medical procedure by a licensed professional;
(F) Patently offensive, as determined by contemporary community standards, conduct, representations, depictions or descriptions of excretory functions; or
(G) Exhibition of the breast, genitals, buttocks, anus, or pubic or rectal area of any minor that can be reasonably construed as being for the purpose of the sexual arousal or gratification of the defendant or another.
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