The
City Council
finds and declares that there exists in the city a tendency toward a display of adult magazines, books and video cassette tapes in liquor stores, video rental stores and other retail outlets in such a manner that children, often of tender years, are exposed to magazine, book and video cassette tape covers depicting explicit sexual activity and showing human genitals and pubic regions in a sexually explicit manner. The
City Council
finds that such exposure establishes a tone in the community inconsistent with morality and good order and creates a public nuisance.
The
City Council
finds that it is in the best interest of the public health, safety and welfare to regulate the display of reading materials with sexually explicit covers and to adopt the regulations set out in this chapter so that the adverse impacts of such material on children and the community as a whole will be kept to a minimum. (Ord. 576 § 1(part), 1995).