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(A) Each license issued for the operation of a sexually-oriented business shall remain valid for a period of one calendar year from the date of issuance unless otherwise suspended or revoked. Such license may be renewed only by making application and payment of a fee as provided in this chapter.
(B) Application for renewal should be made at least 90 days before the expiration date of the previously issued license.
(C) In no event shall a license to operate a sexually-oriented business be extended beyond the original date of expiration.
(Ord. C-439, passed 10-3-2006)
An owner, operator, employee or entertainer cannot and shall not transfer or attempt to transfer his or her license to another, nor shall an owner, operator, employee or entertainer operate or attempt to operate a sexually-oriented business under the authority of a license at any place other than the address designated in the sexually-oriented business license application.
(Ord. C-439, passed 10-3-2006)
(A) No person shall place, maintain, own or operate any sexually-oriented business in the following locations:
(1) In any residential area of a city or town located in whole or in part within the boundaries of the city, unless otherwise allowed by the individual city or town; and/or
(2) Within 2,000 feet of any parcel of real estate upon which is located any of the following:
(a) A public or private elementary school, junior high school or senior high school;
(b) A daycare facility registered with the state;
(c) A church;
(d) A park or recreation facility operated and/or improved by the city, the county’s Conservation Board or the state;
(e) A federal, state, county or special district governmental office;
(f) A supermarket, grocery store or convenience store engaged in the sale of food and/or fuel;
(g) A restaurant or fast food establishment;
(h) Any other sexually-oriented business; and/or
(i) Any other business or establishment reasonably believed to be catering to family trade.
(B) For purposes of this section, distance shall be measured in a straight line, without regard to intervening structures, from the closest property line of the sexually-oriented business to the closest property line of the real property upon which the previously described facilities are located.
(Ord. C-439, passed 10-3-2006)
(A) Notwithstanding any other ordinance, code or regulation to the contrary, a sexually-oriented business shall not erect or maintain any sign for the sexually-oriented business other than one primary sign and one secondary sign as provided herein.
(B) The primary sign shall have no more than two display surfaces. Each such display surface shall:
(1) Not contain any flashing lights;
(2) Be a flat plane, rectangular in shape;
(3) Not exceed 75 square feet in area;
(4) Not exceed ten feet in height or ten feet in length;
(5) Contain no photographs, silhouettes, drawings or pictorial representations in any manner; and
(6) Contain letters of a solid color with each such letter consisting of the same print type, size and color as all other letters forming each word on the sign. Additionally, the background behind such lettering on the display surface of the sign shall be of a uniform and solid color.
(C) A secondary sign shall have only one display surface. Such display surface shall:
(1) Be a flat plane, rectangular in shape;
(2) Not exceed 20 square feet in area;
(3) Not exceed five feet in height and four feet in width;
(4) Be affixed or attached to a wall of the enterprise; and
(5) Conform with the provisions of divisions (B)(1), (B)(5) and (B)(6) above relating to primary signs.
(Ord. C-439, passed 10-3-2006)
No sexually-oriented business facility shall be conducted in a manner that permits the observation of any material depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas by display, decoration, sign, show window or other opening from any public way or from any property not licensed as a sexually-oriented business facility.
(Ord. C-439, passed 10-3-2006)
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