§ 117.01 PURPOSE AND INTENT.
   It is the purpose and intent of this Chapter 117 to regulate sexually oriented businesses to promote the health, safety, and general welfare of the citizens of the City and 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 117 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 117 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 Section to condone or legitimize the distribution of obscene materials.
(Prior Code, Art. 11, § 11.15.1)