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INDIANA LAW · AS REPORTED TO NOVEMBER 2026
Indiana's public-indecency statute, Indiana Code § 35-45-1-5, turns on the act appearing in a "public place," and the reported case law states the line the clubs are tested against: in Long v. State, 666 N.E.2d 1258 (Ind. Ct. App. 1996), a membership card at the door did not by itself make a commercial club a private place — the members-only door is a fact in the analysis, not a conclusion of it. Stated as the negative the audit requires: no reported Indiana appellate case tests the public-indecency statute, or a zoning code, against a swingers social club. The category is legislated about — in controlled-use lists like the county's §6.01, which do not name it — and never litigated in the reported opinions under its own name. That is the finding, printed as a finding: the state's reported law reaches the door question through a neighbouring kind of club in Long, and reaches no club of this category at all.
Sources: Indiana Code § 35-45-1-5; Long v. State, 666 N.E.2d 1258 (Ind. Ct. App. 1996); reported-opinion searches (CourtListener; Justia Indiana opinions) under the art-70-3 synonyms, November 2026.