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repealed or amended by this ordinance shal be prosecuted and

remains punishable under the repealed or amended ordinance as

if this ordinance had not been adopted.

SECTION 8. Should any provision (section, paragraph, sentence,

clause, or any other portion) of this ordinance be declared by a

court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid for any reason, the

remaining provisions shal not be af ected unless such remaining

provisions clearly cannot, without the invalid provision or

provisions, be given the effect intended by the council in adopting

this ordinance. It is further declared to be the intent of the

City-County Council that the ordinance be upheld as applied to

the graphic depiction of actual sexual subordination whether or

not upheld as applied to material produced without the

participation of human subjects nor shal a judicial declaration that

* These sections were not included in the codification of Indianapolis City-County General Ordinance No. 35, 1984 in the Code of Indianapolis and Marion County,

Indiana, Chapter 16. It is a policy of the Indianapolis City-County Council not to codify sections of ordinances regarding effective dates and severability. [Footnote in original. ]

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any provision (section, paragraph, sentence, clause or any other

portion) of this ordinance cannot validly be applied in a particular

manner or to a particular case or category of cases af ect the

validity of that provision (section, paragraph, sentence, clause or

any other portion) as applied in other ways or to other categories

of cases unless such remaining application would clearly frustrate

the Council’s intent in adopting this ordinance. To this end, the

provisions of this ordinance arc severable.

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Appendix C

CITY OF CAMBRIDGE

In the Year One Thousand, Nine Hundred 85

AN ORDINANCE

In amendment to an ordinance formerly entitled “the General

Ordinances of the City of Cambridge” as revised in 1972 and now

designated as “The Code of the City of Cambridge. ”

Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Cambridge as

fol ows:

Inasmuch, as pornography, a systematic practice of exploitation

and subordination based on sex which differentially harms women,

exists in the City of Cambridge, posing a substantial threat to the

health, safety, welfare and equality of citizens in the community,

and existing state and federal laws are inadequate to solve these

problems;

There shall be enacted amendments to the Human Rights Code,