3-2-1: PURPOSE:
This chapter regulates adult businesses of all types. It is the purpose of this chapter to regulate adult businesses to promote the health, safety, and general welfare of the citizens of Nyssa, and to establish reasonable and uniform regulations of adult businesses within the city. The provisions of this chapter have neither the purpose or effect of imposing a limitation or restriction on the content of any communicative materials including sexually oriented materials. Similarly, it is not the intent or effect of this chapter to restrict or deny access by adults to sexually oriented materials protected by the first amendment of the United States constitution, or by article I, section 8 of the Oregon constitution, or to deny access by the distributors and exhibitors of sexually oriented material to their intended market. Neither is it the intent or effect of this chapter to condone or legitimize the distribution of obscene material. (Ord. 578, 6-16-1998)