CHAPTER 112: SEXUALLY ORIENTED BUSINESSES

Section

General Provisions

   112.01   Purpose and intent

   112.02   Definitions

   112.03   Establishment and classification of business regulated

   112.04   Measurements of distance

   112.05   Operation of sexually oriented businesses

   112.06   Regulations governing existing sexually oriented businesses

   112.07   Injunction

Sexually Oriented Business Permits

   112.20   Purpose and intent

   112.21   Permit required

   112.22   Investigation and application

   112.23   Issuance of permit

   112.24   Annual permit fee

   112.25   Inspection

   112.26   Expiration of permit

   112.27   Suspension of permit

   112.28   Revocation of permit

   112.29   Judicial review of permit denial, suspension or revocation

   112.30   Transfer of permit

   112.31   Prohibitions regarding minors and sexually oriented businesses

   112.32   Advertising regulations

   112.33   Hours of operation

   112.34   Nudity at sexually oriented businesses not offering for sale alcoholic beverages subject to prohibition pursuant to the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Barnes v. Glen Theater, Inc.

   112.35   Additional criminal prohibitions for the operation of a sexually oriented business without a valid permit

   112.36   Exemptions

   112.37   Immunity from prosecution

   112.99   Penalties and additional legal, equitable, and injunctive relief

GENERAL PROVISIONS

§ 112.01 PURPOSE AND INTENT.

   It is the purpose and intent of this chapter to regulate sexually oriented businesses to promote the health, safety, morals, and general welfare of the citizens of the city to establish reasonable and uniform regulations to prevent any deleterious location and concentration of sexually oriented businesses within the city, thereby reducing or eliminating the adverse secondary effects from such sexually oriented businesses. 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. Neither is it the intent nor effect of the chapter to condone or legitimize the distribution of obscene material.

(Ord. 1998-12, passed 10-6-98; Am. Ord. 2009-3, passed 4-21-09)