Aldermen have adopted an ordinance to ban the sale of sexually explicit material in the small town of Magnolia, according to an Associated Press report.
The city of Magnolia covers 3.2 square miles and has a population of just over 2,000.
The board acted during the first week of March after receiving complaints from ministers and others offended by what they said were pornographic magazines being displayed at some area stores, the AP said.
Possessing pornography, however, is not illegal under the new ordinance.
"It has no place in our town. I would like to see it out of our community altogether," Alderman George "Lucky" Chaplain told the news service.
Mayor Jim Storer said that he does not see the ordinance as being in conflict with free speech rights, according to the report. Storer said businesses caught selling pornographic material could be cited and fined, although no specific penalty has been established.
"There would be a citation and then a charge for that citation ... it's not fixed at this time," he told AP.
