1. A. Whenever the Attorney General of this state or the district attorney for any district has reasonable cause to believe that any person, with knowledge of its contents, is:

   1. 1. Engaged in sending or causing to be sent, bringing or causing to be brought, into this state for sale or commercial distribution; or

   2. 2. In this state preparing, selling, exhibiting or commercially distributing or giving away, or offering to give away, or has in his or her possession with intent to sell, or commercially distribute or to exhibit or give away or offer to give away,

      any obscene material or child sexual abuse material, the Attorney General or the district attorney for the county into which such mailable matter is sent or caused to be sent, brought or caused to be brought, or in which it is prepared, sold, exhibited or commercially distributed or given away or offered to be given away, or possessed, may institute an action in the district court for an adjudication of the obscenity or child sexual abuse content of the mailable matter.

Laws 1968, SB 185, c. 121, § 4, emerg. eff. April 4, 1968; Amended by Laws 2000, HB 2104, c. 208, § 15, eff. November 1, 2000 (superseded document available); Amended by Laws 2024, HB 3936, c. 59, § 22, eff. November 1, 2024 (superseded document available).