(a) “ADULT ARCADE” means any place to which the public is permitted or invited where either or both:
(1) Motion picture machines, projectors, video or laser disc players, or
(2) Other video or image-producing devices are available, run via coin, token, or any form of consideration, to show images to five or fewer persons at one time; and where the images shown and/or live entertainment presented is characterized by the depiction or description of "specified sexual activities" or "specified anatomical areas."
(b) “ADULT BOOKSTORE, ADULT NOVELTY STORE OR ADULT VIDEO STORE” means a commercial establishment which, as one of its principal business purposes, offers for sale or rental for any form of consideration any one or more of the following:
(1) Books, magazines, periodicals or other printed matter, or photographs, films, motion pictures, video cassettes or video reproductions, slides, or other visual representations which are characterized by the depiction or description of "specified sexual activities" or "specified anatomical areas"; or
(2) Instruments, devices, or paraphernalia other than prophylactics, which are designed for use in connection with "specified sexual activities."
A commercial establishment may have other principal business purposes that do not involve the offering for sale or rental of material depicting or describing "specified sexual activities" or "specified anatomical areas" and may still be categorized as “ADULT BOOKSTORE, ADULT NOVELTY STORE”, or “ADULT VIDEO STORE”. Such other business purposes will not serve to exempt such commercial establishments from being categorized as an “ADULT BOOKSTORE, ADULT NOVELTY STORE”, or “ADULT VIDEO STORE” so long as one of its principal business purposes is the offering for sale or rental for consideration the specified materials which are characterized by the depiction or description of "specified sexual activities" or "specified anatomical areas."
(c) “ADULT CABARET” means a nightclub, bar, restaurant, or similar commercial establishment which regularly features:
(1) Persons who appear in a "state of nudity" or "state of semi-nudity"; or
(2) Live performances which are characterized by the exposure of "specified anatomical areas" or by "specified sexual activities"; or
(3) Live entertainment of an erotic nature including exotic dancers, strippers, male or female impersonators, or similar entertainment; or
(4) Films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides or other photographic reproductions which are characterized by the depiction or description of "specified sexual activities" or "specified anatomical areas."
(d) “ADULT MOTION PICTURE THEATER” means a commercial establishment where, for any form of consideration, films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides, digital projections, laser projections, computer reproductions or similar visual reproductions are regularly shown which are characterized by the depiction or description of "specified sexual activities" or "specified anatomical areas."
(e) “ADULT THEATER” means a theater, concert hall, auditorium, or similar commercial establishment which regularly features persons who appear in a state of nudity or semi-nudity, or live performances which are characterized by the exposure of "specified anatomical areas" or by "specified sexual activities" or live entertainment of an erotic nature, including exotic dancers, strippers, male or female impersonators or similar entertainment.
(f) “COVERING” means any clothing or wearing apparel, including pasties, but does not include any substance that can be washed off the skin, such as paint or make-up, or any substance designed to simulate the appearance of the anatomical area beneath it.
(g) “ESTABLISHMENT” means and includes any of the following:
(1) The opening or commencement of any Sexually Oriented Business as a new business;
(2) The conversion of an existing business, whether or not a Sexually Oriented Business, to any Sexually Oriented Business;
(3) The additions of any Sexually Oriented Business to any other existing Sexually Oriented Business; or
(4) The relocation of any Sexually Oriented Business.
(h) “NUDE MODEL STUDIO” means any place where a person who appears semi- nude or who displays specified anatomical areas is provided to be observed, sketched, drawn, painted, sculptured, photographed, or similarly depicted by other persons who pay money or any form of consideration.
“Nude Model Studio” shall not include:
(1) A proprietary school licensed by the State of Ohio, or a college, junior college or university supported entirely or in part by public taxation.
(2) A private college or university that offers educational programs in which credits are transferable to a college, junior college, or university supported entirely or partly by taxation; or
(3) An establishment holding classes in a structure that has no sign visible from the exterior of the structure and no other advertising that indicates a semi- nude person is available for viewing; where in order to participate in a class a student must enroll at least three days in advance of the class; and where no more than one semi-nude model is on the premises at any one time.
(i) “NUDITY” or a “STATE OF NUDITY” or “NUDE” means exposing to view the genitals, pubic area, vulva, perineum, anus, anal cleft or cleavage, or pubic hair with less than a fully opaque covering; exposing to view any portion of the areola of the female breast with less than a fully opaque covering; exposing to view male genitals in a discernibly turgid state, even if entirely covered by an opaque covering; or exposing to view any device, costume, or covering that gives the appearance of or simulates any of these anatomical areas.
(j) “PERSON” means an individual, proprietorship, partnership, corporation, association or other legal entity.
(k) “PRINCIPAL BUSINESS PURPOSE” means twenty-five percent (25%) or more of the stock in trade of the business offered for sale or rental for consideration measured as a percentage of either the total linear feet of merchandise for sale or rental for consideration on display or the gross receipts of merchandise for sale or rental for consideration, whichever is the greater.
(1) “SEMI-NUDITY” or “SEMI-NUDE CONDITION” or “SEMI-NUDE” means exposing to view, with less than a fully opaque covering, any portion of the female breast below the top of the areola or any portion of the buttocks. This definition shall include the entire lower portion of the female breast, but shall not include any portion of the cleavage of the female breast exhibited by a dress, blouse, shirt, leotard, bathing suit, or other clothing, provided that the areola is not exposed in whole or in part.
(m) “SEXUAL ENCOUNTER CENTER” means a business or commercial enterprise that, as one of its principal business purposes, offers for any form of consideration:
(1) Physical contact in the form of wrestling or tumbling between persons of the opposite sex; or
(2) Activities between male and female persons and/or persons of the same sex when one or more of the persons is semi-nude.
(n) “SEXUALLY ORIENTED BUSINESS” means an adult arcade, adult bookstore, adult novelty store, adult video store, adult cabaret, adult motion picture theater, adult theater, nude model studio, or sexual encounter center.
(o) “SPECIFIED ANATOMICAL AREAS” means:
(1) The human male genitals in a discernibly turgid state, even if completely and opaquely covered; or
(2) Less than completely and opaquely covered human genitals, pubic region, buttocks or a female breast below a point immediately above the top of the areola.
(p) “SPECIFIED SEXUAL ACTIVITIES” means any of the following:
(1) The fondling or other erotic touching of human genitals, pubic region, buttocks, anus, or female breasts;
(2) Sex acts, normal or perverted, actual or simulated, including intercourse, oral copulation, masturbation, or sodomy; or
(3) Excretory functions as part of or in connection with any of the activities set forth in subsections (a)(1) and (2) hereof.
(q) “SUBSTANTIAL ENLARGEMENT” of a Sexually Oriented business means the increase in floor areas occupied by the business by more than twenty-five percent (25%), as the floor areas exist on the date this chapter takes effect.
(Ord. 1998-221. Passed 3-4-99.)