(a) Title. The article shall be known as the "Video Lottery Establishment Ordinance".
(b) Findings. This article is enacted to improve health, safety and welfare of the citizens of the Town of Eleanor, as permitted by Chapter 8A of the WV Code. The purpose is to:
(1) Protect the health, safety and general welfare of the present and future population of the Town of Eleanor, Putnam County, West Virginia.
(2) Video Lottery Establishments, by their very nature, require special supervision by agencies of the County to protect and preserve the health, safety and welfare of the employees, patrons and neighbors of Video Lottery establishments and the citizens of the town; and
(3) The regulation of the location of Video Lottery Establishments is necessary to prevent undesirable secondary effects on surrounding areas, including, without limitation, to deflate real property values; and to impede the development of businesses and residences.
(4) It is the purpose of this article to regulate the location of Video Lottery Establishments within the Municipal Limits to curtail the secondary effects thereof. It is not the purpose of the Ordinance to permanently bar any Video Lottery Establishment that is an Existing Use within the Municipal Limits.
(c) Interpretation. The provisions of this article shall be held to be minimum requirements. Wherever the requirements of this article are at variance with the requirements of any other lawfully adopted rules, regulations, ordinances, deed restrictions, or covenants, the most restrictive or that imposing the higher standard, shall govern.
(Ord. 10-01. Passed 6-17-10.)