(A) The purpose of this chapter is to regulate public commercial adult entertainment including: but not limited to, those forms of public commercial entertainment involving dancing, monologues, pantomimes, and other types of personal body exhibitions, contortions or displays, motion pictures, still slides, and closed circuit television; and establishments within the township where such public commercial entertainment is presented, promoted, or permitted, to thereby prohibit any lewd, obscene, immoral, or unduly sexually stimulating entertainment acts, shows, or personal exhibitions; and to promote the health, safety, and general welfare of the inhabitants of the township.
(B) This chapter does not apply to any publicly broadcast television transmission from a federally licensed station.
(C) Because some uses of adult entertainment are recognized as having a harmful effect upon adjacent areas, causing a distressing effect upon other businesses and occupants and a disruption in planned district development, it is considered necessary and in the best interest for the orderly development of the township to prohibit widespread distribution of such uses, and require instead, their placement in a specific district or districts as authorized by Chapter 153 to thereby minimize their adverse impact on any specific neighborhood.
(Ord. 34, passed 8-18-2011)