It is the purpose of this chapter to regulate sexually-oriented businesses in order to promote the health, safety, morals, and general welfare of the citizens of the city, and to establish reasonable, and uniform, regulations to prevent the deleterious location, and concentration, of sexually-oriented businesses within the city. The provisions of this chapter have neither the purpose, nor effect, of imposing a limitation, or restriction, on the content of any communicative materials, including sexually-oriented materials. Similarly, it is not the intent, nor effect, of this chapter to restrict, or deny, access by adults to sexually-oriented materials protected by the First Amendment, or to deny access by the distributors, and exhibitors, of sexually-oriented entertainment to their intended market. Neither is it the intent, nor effect, of this chapter to condone, or legitimize, the distribution of obscene material.
(Prior Code, § 11.70)