(a) For the purpose of protecting the public health, safety and welfare, and in order to minimize the negative "secondary effects" known by the Village to be associated with sexually oriented businesses (see Section 1288.08, Definitions,) such as the spread of communicable diseases; reduction in property values; diminishing of the character and quality of residential neighborhoods; increase in crime; denigration of social and moral order; and the diminishing or destroying the use of public facilities, particularly those facilities used by children or those used for religious purposes, the Village has adopted sexually oriented business regulations.
(b) The provisions of this chapter have neither the purpose nor effect of imposing a limitation or restriction on the content of any constitutionally protected communicative materials or communication, including that associated with sexually oriented businesses. Furthermore it is not the intent of this chapter to deny access by adults to sexually oriented materials protected by the First Amendment, or to deny access by the distributors or exhibitors of sexually oriented entertainment to their intended market.
(c) Neither is it the intent nor effect of this chapter to condone or legitimize the distribution of obscene material.
(Ord. 2009-17. Passed 9-15-2009.)