It is the purpose of this chapter to regulate sexually oriented businesses to promote the health, safety, 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 provision of this chapter has neither the purpose nor the effect of imposing a restriction on the content of any communicative materials, including sexually oriented materials. Similarly, it is neither the intention nor the 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 or the effect of this chapter to condone or legitimize the distribution of obscene material.
(Ord. 00-9, passed 8-14-00; Am. Ord. 2001-17, passed 1-14-02)