(A) The purpose of this chapter is to regulate sexually oriented businesses to promote the health, safety, morals and general welfare of the citizens of the city, to guard against the inception and transmission of disease and to establish reasonable and uniform regulations. The provisions of this chapter have neither the purpose nor effect of imposing a limitation or restriction on the content of any communicative materials, including sexually oriented materials. Similarly, it is not the intent nor effect of this chapter to restrict or deny access by adults to sexually oriented materials protected by the First Amendment, or to deny access by the distributors and exhibitors of sexually oriented entertainment to their intended market.
(B) The Council further finds that experience from other cities demonstrates that sexually oriented businesses conducted in private by members of the same or the opposite sex and employing personnel with no specialized training, are susceptible to operation in a manner contravening, subverting or endangering the health, safety and welfare of members of the community by being the sites of acts of prostitution, illicit sex and occasions of violent crimes, thus requiring close inspection, licensing and regulation.
(Prior Code, § 6.42, Subd. 1) (Ord. 188, effective 10-2-1998)