For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ADULT ARCADE. Any place to which the public is permitted or invited wherein coin-operated or slug-operated or electronically-, electrically- or mechanically-controlled still or motion picture machines, projectors or other image-producing devices are maintained to show images to five or fewer persons per machine at any one time, and where the images so displayed are distinguished or characterized by the depicting or describing of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
ADULT BOOKSTORE or ADULT VIDEO STORE. A commercial establishment which as one of its principal business purposes offers for sale or rental for any form of consideration any one or more of the following: books, magazines, periodicals or other printed matter; or photographs, films, motion pictures, video cassettes or video reproductions, slides or other visual representations which depict or describe specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas; or instruments, devices or paraphernalia which are designed for use in connection with specified sexual activities.
ADULT CABARET. A nightclub, bar, restaurant or similar commercial establishment which regularly features persons who appear in a state of nudity or live performances which are characterized by the exposure of specified anatomical areas or by specified sexual activities; or films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides or other photographic reproductions which are characterized by the depiction or description of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical area.
ADULT MOTEL. A hotel, motel or similar commercial establishment which offers accommodations to the public for any form of consideration; provides patrons with closed-circuit television transmissions, films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides or other photographic reproductions which are characterized by the depiction or description of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas and has a sign visible from the public right-of-way which advertises the availability of this adult type of photographic reproductions; or offers a sleeping room for rent for a period of time that is less than ten hours; or allows a tenant or occupant of a sleeping room to subrent the room for a period of time that is less than ten hours.
ADULT MOTION PICTURE THEATER. A commercial establishment where, for any form of consideration, films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides or similar photographic reproductions are regularly shown which are characterized by the depiction or description of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
ADULT THEATER. A theater, concert hall, auditorium or similar commercial establishment which regularly features persons who appear in a state of nudity or live performances which are characterized by the exposure of specified anatomical areas or by specified sexual activities.
ESCORT. A person who, for consideration, agrees or offers to act as a companion, guide or date for another person, or who agrees or offers to privately model lingerie or to privately perform a striptease for another person.
ESCORT AGENCY. A person or business association who furnishes, offers to furnish or advertises to furnish escorts as one of its primary business purposes for a fee, tip or other consideration.
ESTABLISHMENT. Any of the following: the opening or commencement of any sexually-oriented business as a new business; the conversion of an existing business, whether or not a sexually-oriented business, to any sexually-oriented business; the addition of any sexually-oriented business to any other existing sexually-oriented business; or the relocation of any sexually-oriented business.
LICENSEE. A person in whose name a license to operate a sexually-oriented business has been issued, as well as the individual listed as an applicant on the application for a license.
NUDE MODEL STUDIO. Any place where a person who appears in a state of nudity or displays specified anatomical areas is provided to be observed, sketched, drawn, painted, sculptured, photographed or similarly depicted by other persons who pay money or any form of consideration.
NUDITY or STATE OF NUDITY. The appearance of a human, bare buttock, anus, male genitals, female genitals or female breast; or a state of dress which fails to opaquely cover a human buttock, anus, male genitals, female genitals or areola of the female breast.
RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT. A single-family, duplex, townhouse, multiple-family or mobile home zoning district.
RESIDENTIAL USE. A single-family, duplex, multiple-family or mobile home park, mobile home subdivision and campground use.
SEMI-NUDE. A state of dress in which clothing covers no more than the genitals, pubic region and areolas of the female breast, as well as portions of the body covered by supporting straps or devices.
SEXUAL ENCOUNTER CENTER. A business or commercial enterprise that, as one of its primary business purposes, offers for any form of consideration physical contact in the form of wrestling or tumbling between persons of the opposite sex or activities between male and female persons and/or persons of the same sex when one or more of the persons is in a state of nudity or semi-nude.
SEXUALLY-ORIENTED BUSINESS. An adult arcade, adult bookstore or adult video store, adult cabaret, adult motel, adult motion picture theater, adult theater, escort agency, nude model studio or sexual encounter center.
SPECIFIED ANATOMICAL AREAS. Human genitals in a state of sexual arousal.
SPECIFIED SEXUAL ACTIVITIES. Any of the following: the fondling or other erotic touching of human genitals, pubic region, buttocks, anus or female breasts; sex acts, normal or perverted, actual or simulated, including intercourse, oral copulation or sodomy; masturbation, actual or simulated; or excretory functions as part of or in connection with any of the activities set forth herein.
SUBSTANTIAL ENLARGEMENT OF A SEXUALLY-ORIENTED BUSINESS. The increase in floor area occupied by the business by more than 25%, as the floor area exists on effective date of the ordinance from which this chapter derived.
TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP OR CONTROL OF A SEXUALLY-ORIENTED BUSINESS. The sale, lease or sublease of the business, the transfer of securities which constitute a controlling interest in the business, whether by sale, exchange or similar means or the establishment of a trust, gift or other similar legal device which transfers the ownership or control of the business, except for transfer by bequest or other operation of law upon the death of the person possessing the ownership or control.
(2012 Code, § 19-31)