(a) The regulations established herein are intended to protect the health, safety and welfare of the citizens of St. Bernard by controlling and minimizing any adverse secondary effects created by adult entertainment facilities.
(b) The Village recognizes that adult entertainment businesses are frequently used for unlawful sexual activities, including prostitution, and that crime and unsafe conduct tend to increase in frequency in the geographic areas surrounding an adult entertainment business, including but not limited to prostitution, pandering, exposing minors to harmful materials, possession and distribution of obscene materials and child pornography, possession and sale of controlled substances and violent crime against persons and property.
(c) Therefore the Village seeks to minimize and control the adverse secondary effects determined to be associated with adult entertainment facilities and thereby protect the health, safety and welfare of the citizens of St. Bernard; protect the citizens of St. Bernard from increased crime; preserve and protect property values and the character of surrounding neighborhoods and businesses; and deter the spread of urban blight.
(d) It is not the intent of this regulation to suppress any speech activities protected by the First Amendment, but to enact a content-neutral ordinance which addresses the adverse secondary effects of adult entertainment facilities.
(e) It is also not the intent of the Village to condone or legitimize the distribution of obscene material, and the Village recognizes that state law prohibits the distribution of obscene materials.
(Ord. 35-1998. Passed 10-15-98.)
(Ord. 35-1998. Passed 10-15-98.)