Texas Penal Code Title 9, Chapter 43 - Public Indecency

SUBCHAPTER A PROSTITUTION

• Texas Section 43.01 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Deviate sexual intercourse" means any contact between the genitals of one person and the mouth or anus of another person. (2)...
• Texas Section 43.02 - Prostitution
  (a) A person commits an offense if, in return for receipt of a fee, the person knowingly: (1) offers to engage, agrees to engage, or...
• Texas Section 43.03 - Promotion Of Prostitution
  (a) A person commits an offense if, acting other than as a prostitute receiving compensation for personally rendered prostitution services, he or she knowingly: (1)...
• Texas Section 43.04 - Aggravated Promotion Of Prostitution
  (a) A person commits an offense if he knowingly owns, invests in, finances, controls, supervises, or manages a prostitution enterprise that uses two or more...
• Texas Section 43.05 - Compelling Prostitution
  (a) A person commits an offense if the person knowingly: (1) causes another by force, threat, or fraud to commit prostitution; or (2) causes by...

SUBCHAPTER B OBSCENITY

• Texas Section 43.06 - Accomplice Witness; Testimony And Immunity
  (a) A party to an offense under this subchapter may be required to furnish evidence or testify about the offense. (b) A party to an...
• Texas Section 43.21 - Definitions
  (a) In this subchapter: (1) "Obscene" means material or a performance that: (A) the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that taken as...
• Texas Section 43.22 - Obscene Display Or Distribution
  (a) A person commits an offense if he intentionally or knowingly displays or distributes an obscene photograph, drawing, or similar visual representation or other obscene...
• Texas Section 43.23 - Obscenity
  (a) A person commits an offense if, knowing its content and character, he wholesale promotes or possesses with intent to wholesale promote any obscene material...
• Texas Section 43.24 - Sale, Distribution, Or Display Of Harmful Material To Minor
  (a) For purposes of this section: (1) "Minor" means an individual younger than 18 years. (2) "Harmful material" means material whose dominant theme taken as...
• Texas Section 43.25 - Sexual Performance By A Child
  (a) In this section: (1) "Sexual performance" means any performance or part thereof that includes sexual conduct by a child younger than 18 years of...
• Texas Section 43.251 - Employment Harmful To Children
  (a) In this section: (1) "Child" means a person younger than 18 years of age. (2) "Massage" has the meaning assigned to the term "massage...
• Texas Section 43.26 - Possession Or Promotion Of Child Pornography
  (a) A person commits an offense if: (1) the person knowingly or intentionally possesses, or knowingly or intentionally accesses with intent to view, visual material...
• Texas Section 43.261 - Electronic Transmission Of Certain Visual Material Depicting Minor
  (a) In this section: (1) "Dating relationship" has the meaning assigned by Section 71.0021, Family Code. (2) "Minor" means a person younger than 18 years...
• Texas Section 43.27 - Duty To Report
  (a) For purposes of this section, " visual material" has the meaning assigned by Section 43.26. (b) A business that develops or processes visual material...

Last modified: September 28, 2016