For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ADULT BOOK AND/OR MEDIA STORE. An establishment which excludes minors and which has a substantial portion of its stock in trade or stock on display book, magazines, films describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
ADULT CABARET. An establishment which provides dancing or other live entertainment, if the establishment excludes minors by virtue of age from all or part of the establishment and if the dancing or other live entertainment is distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on the performance, depiction or description of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
ADULT ESTABLISHMENT. Any business which offers its patrons services, entertainment, or the sale of merchandise characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, exposing, describing, discussing, or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas. Specifically included in the term, but without limitation, are adult book and media stores, adult cabarets, adult hotels or motels, adult mini-motion picture theaters, adult modeling studios, adult motion picture arcades, adult motion picture theaters, adult novelty businesses, and other adult establishments.
ADULT HOTEL OR MOTEL. A hotel or motel from which minors are specifically excluded from patronage and wherein material is presented which is distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing, or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
ADULT MINI-MOTION PICTURE THEATER.
(1) A theater in an enclosed building, from which minors are excluded from all or part of the establishment, with a capacity for less than 100 persons used for presenting motion pictures, including but not limited to film, videotape and DVD, having as a dominant theme material distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing, or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
(2) Any business which present motion pictures, from which minors are excluded from all or part of the establishment, including films, videotapes and DVD, having as a dominant theme material distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas, for viewing on the premises, including but not limited to private booths, viewing by means of coin operated or other mechanical devices, and the viewing or excerpt of motion pictures offered for sale or rent.
ADULT MODELING STUDIO. An establishment, which excludes minors from all or part of the establishment, whose major business is the provision, to customers, or figure models who are so provided with the intent of providing sexual stimulation or sexual gratification to the customer and who engage in specified sexual activities or display specified anatomical areas while being observed, painted, painted upon, sketched, drawn, sculpted, photographed or otherwise depicted by the customers.
ADULT MOTION PICTURE ARCADE. Any place which excludes minors from all or part of the establishment wherein coin or token operated or electronically, electrically, or mechanically controlled or operated still or motion picture machines, projectors, video machines or other image producing devices are maintained to show images to 5 or fewer persons per machine at any 1 time, and where the images so displayed are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on depicting or describing specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
ADULT MOTION PICTURE THEATER. A theater in an enclosed building, from which minors are excluded from all or part of the establishment, with a capacity of 100 or more persons used regularly and routinely for presenting live entertainment or motion pictures, including but not limited to film and videotapes, having as a dominant theme material distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing, or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas for observation by patrons herein.
ADULT NOVELTY BUSINESS. A business, from which minors are excluded from all or part of the establishment, which sells, offers to sell, or displays devices which simulate human genitals or devices which are designed for sexual stimulation.
ADULT USE. Any of the activities and businesses described below constitute adult oriented businesses which are subject to the regulation of this chapter.
SPECIFIED ANATOMICAL AREAS. Any of the following conditions:
(1) Less than completely and opaquely covered;
(a) Human genitals, pubic region, or pubic hair;
(b) Buttock; and
(c) Female breast below a point immediately above the top of the areola; or
(2) Human male genitals in a discernible turgid state, even if opaquely covered.
SPECIFIED SEXUAL ACTIVITIES. Any of the following conditions:
(1) An act of sexual intercourse, normal or perverted, actual or simulated, including genital-genital, anal-genital, or oral-genital intercourse, whether between human beings or between a human being and an animal;
(2) Sadomasochistic abuse, meaning flagellation or torture by or upon a person who is nude or clad in undergarments or in a revealing costume or the condition of being fettered, bound, or otherwise physically restricted on the part of 1 so clothed;
(3) Masturbation or lewd exhibitions of the genitals including any explicit, close-up representation of a human genital organ clothed or unclothed; or
(4) Physical contact or simulated physical contact with the clothed or unclothed pubic areas or buttocks of a human male or female, or the breasts of a female, whether alone or between members of the same or opposite sex or between humans and animals in an act of apparent sexual stimulation or gratification.
(Prior Code, § 18-301)