CHAPTER 8: SEXUALLY ORIENTED BUSINESS

Section

5-8-1   Purpose and Intent

5-8-2   Definitions

5-8-3   Classification

5-8-4   Permit and/or License Required

5-8-5   Issuance of Permit and/or License

5-8-6   Fees

5-8-7   Inspection

5-8-8   Expiration of Permit and/or License

5-8-9   Suspension

5-8-10   Revocation

5-8-11   Transfer of Permit and/or License

5-8-12   Location of Sexually Oriented Business

5-8-13   Additional Regulations for Adult Motels

5-8-14   Regulations Pertaining to Exhibition of Sexually Explicit Films or Videos

5-8-15   Exemptions

5-8-16   Injunction and Violations

Note: The following sections adopted by Ordinance 98-16, passed October 12, 1998.

§ 5-8-1 PURPOSE AND INTENT.

   It is the purpose of this chapter to regulate sexually oriented businesses to promote the health, safety, morals, and general welfare of the citizens of the city, and to establish reasonable and uniform regulations to prevent the continued deleterious location and concentration of sexually oriented businesses within the city. 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 or 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. Neither is it the intent or effect of this ordinance to condone or legitimize the distribution of obscene material.

(Ord. 98-16, passed 10-12-1998)

§ 5-8-2 DEFINITIONS.

5-8-2-1

   ADULT ARCADE means 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 (5) 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."