A person who, in a public place or in sight of the public, performs the sexual act or any other indecent act or gesture grossly offensive to decency or morals,
Penal Code
2015 English source edition · Current applicability not established.
English-language 2015 Ministry of Justice edition. Refworld catalogues this English expression as an unofficial translation; Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation.
Article 312
Public Indecency · Preserved transcription; page attribution imported from the source collection. Verify against the original.
is guilty of public indecency, a Class 2 petty offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 1 month and not more than 6 months, or a fine of 5,001 – 20,000 Nakfas, to be set in intervals of 1,000 Nakfas.
A person who, in the presence of persons under the age of fifteen, performs the sexual act or any other indecent act or gesture grossly offensive to decency or morals,
is guilty of public indecency, a Class 1 petty offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 6 months and not more than 12 months, or a fine of 20,001 – 50,000 Nakfas, to be set in intervals of 2,500 Nakfas.