723.01 PURPOSE.

   It is the purpose of this chapter to regulate Adult Entertainment Businesses and related activities to promote the health, safety, morals and general welfare of the citizens of the City of Norwalk. The purpose of this chapter is to alleviate undesirable social problems that accompany adult entertainment businesses, and to enact content neutral regulations which address the secondary effects of adult entertainment businesses as well as health problems associated with such businesses, not to curtail First Amendment expression, namely dancing or entertainment. 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 of this chapter to restrict or deny access by adults to sexually oriented materials protected by the Federal or State Constitutions, or to deny access by the distributors and exhibitors of sexually oriented materials to their intended market. Neither is it the intent nor effect of this chapter to condone or make legitimate obscene or criminal material or conduct.

(Ord. 2001-65. Passed 8-7-01.)