For the purpose of this chapter, unless the context clearly
require different meaning, the words, terms and phrases set forth shall have
the meanings given them in this section.
ADULT ARCADE
Any place to which the public is permitted or invited wherein coin-operated
or slug-operated or electronically, electrically, or mechanically controlled
still or motion-picture or video machines, projectors or other image-producing
devices are maintained to show images to five or fewer persons per machine
at any one time, and where the images so displayed are distinguished or characterized
by the depicting or describing of specified sexual activities or specified
anatomical areas.
ADULT BOOKSTORE
An establishment having as a substantial, significant, or preponderant
portion of its stock in matter which is distinguished or characterized by
their emphasis on content depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual
activities or specified anatomical areas, as defined herein.
ADULT BUSINESS
Any adult or sexually oriented business, including any business establishment
that regularly features live performances which are distinguished or characterized
by an emphasis on the exposure of the genitals or buttocks of any person,
or the breasts of any female person, or specified sexual activities that involve
the exposure of the genitals or buttocks of any person, or the breasts of
any female person, or any business whose primary purpose is the sale or display
of matter that, because of its sexually explicit nature, may, pursuant to
state law or other regulatory authority, be offered only to persons over the
age of 18 years. Adult business may include an adult arcade, adult bookstore,
adult cabaret, adult hotel/motel, adult motion-picture theater, adult visual
materials or video store, adult modeling studio, or adult entertainment enterprise,
as defined herein.
ADULT BUSINESS OPERATOR
A person who supervises, manages, inspects, directs, organizes, controls
or in any other way is responsible for or in charge of the premises of an
adult business or the conduct or activities occurring on the premises thereof.
ADULT BUSINESS OWNER
A person or persons who hold a financial or other business interest,
in whole or in part, either singly or jointly, in an adult business. For purposes
of this chapter, indicia of ownership may be established by evidence including,
but not limited to, business license information, fictitious business name
registration, utility billing information, or by other competent evidence.
For purposes of this chapter, the person whose name appears on the business
license application as the business owner shall be deemed to be the adult
business owner.
ADULT CABARET
A building or portion thereof or area regularly featuring the presentation
or exhibition of live performers whose performances are distinguished or characterized
by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual
activities or specified anatomical areas as hereinafter defined; or whose
performances are rendered in a state of dress so as to expose the female breast
below a point immediately above the top of the areola, male or female genitals;
pubic areas; buttocks; or the female breast with only the nipple and areola
covered, or any combination thereof, for observation by patrons or customers.
ADULT ENTERTAINMENT ENTERPRISE
Any business activity wherein is furnished for a fee or charge or
other like consideration the opportunity to paint, feel, handle, touch, be
in the presence of, be entertained by, be painted by, felt by, or touched
by, the unclothed body or the unclothed of the body of another person, or
to observe, view, or photograph such activity; or a fee or charge or like
consideration is paid or received for goods sold or services rendered by or
in the presence of one or more persons with an unclothed body or an unclothed
portion of the body. Adult entertainment enterprise shall include, but not
be limited to, the following business activities and activities similar thereto:
adult or nude encounter studios, adult or nude dance studios, nude exhibitions,
peep shows, wrestling centers, adult or nude art or photograph studios. "Unclothed
portion of the body" shall mean state of dress so as to expose the female
breast below a point immediately above the top of the areola, male or females
genitals, pubic areas, buttocks, or female breast with only the nipple and
areola covered.
ADULT ENTERTAINMENT ROOM
Any room of an adult entertainment establishment which constitutes
an adult cabaret, adult motion-picture theater, adult entertainment enterprise,
or adult theater, or adult visual materials store pursuant to this section.
ADULT HOTEL/MOTEL
A hotel or motel or similar business establishment offering public
accommodations for any form of consideration which provides patrons with closed-circuit
television transmissions, films, computer-generated images, motion pictures,
videocassettes, slides, or other photographic reproductions 30% or more of
the number of which are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis upon
the depiction or description of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical
areas; and rents, leases, or lets any room for less than a six-hour period,
or rents, leases, or lets any single room more than twice in a twenty-four-hour
period.
ADULT MODELING STUDIO
A business which provides, for any form of compensation, monetary
or other consideration, hire or reward, figure models who, for the purposes
of sexual stimulation of patrons, display specified anatomical areas to be
observed, sketched, photographed, painted, sculpted or otherwise depicted
by persons paying such consideration. "Modeling studio" does not include schools
maintained pursuant to standards set by the State Board of Education. "Modeling
studio" further does not include a studio or similar facility owned, operated,
or maintained by an individual artist or group of artists, and which does
not provide, permit, or make available specified sexual activities.
ADULT MOTION-PICTURE THEATER
A building or portion thereof or area, open or enclosed, used for
the presentation on more than 1/3 of the days in a calendar year during which
motion-picture films, videocassettes, cable television or any other such visual
media are displayed or exhibited, of films, videocassettes, cable television
or other visual media which are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis
on matter depicting, describing, or relating to specified sexual activities
or special anatomical areas as hereinafter defined for observation by patrons
or customers. Adult motion-picture theater does not include any room or suite
of rooms rented for human occupancy in a hotel or motel which is equipped
or furnished with a videocassette playing machine or cable television, unless
such hotel or motel is determined to be an adult hotel/motel as defined herein.
ADULT VISUAL MATERIALS OR VIDEO STORE
A building or portion thereof used by an establishment having not
less than 30% of its actual display area devoted to, or stock-in-trade for
sale or rental to the public or any segment thereof consist of, books, magazines,
other publications, films, videocassettes, or any combination thereof which
are distinguished or characterized by their emphasis on matter depicting,
describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical
areas as hereinafter defined.
APPLICANT
A person who is required to file an application for a permit under
this chapter, including an individual owner, managing partner, officer of
a corporation, or any other operator, manager, employee, or agent of an adult
business.
BAR
Any commercial establishment licensed by the State Liquor Control
Board to serve any alcoholic beverages on the premises.
CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICER
The person responsible for ordinance enforcement functions within
the jurisdiction of the Borough, including, but not limited to, responsibility
for administration and enforcement of the provisions of this chapter.
EMPLOYEE
Every owner, partner, manager, supervisor, performer or other worker,
whether paid or not, who renders services of any nature in the conduct of
an adult business establishment. For purposes of this chapter, it shall be
a rebuttable presumption that every person who renders services of any nature
in the conduct of an adult business is an employee of the adult business.
ENTERTAINER
Any person who is an employee or independent contractor of the adult
business, or any person who, with or without any compensation or other form
of consideration, performs live entertainment for patrons of an adult business.
OPERATE AN ADULT BUSINESS
The supervising, managing, inspecting, directing, organizing, controlling
or in anyway being responsible for or in charge of the conduct of activities
of an adult business or activities within an adult business.
PERMITTEE
The person to whom an adult business permit is issued.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, association, partnership, coparty, corporation,
limited liability corporation, joint-stock company, joint venture or combination
of the above in whatever form or character.
REGULARLY FEATURES
With respect to an adult business means a regular, substantial course
of conduct. The presentation, in or at any building or portion thereof, of
live performances which are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis
upon the display of specified anatomical areas or specified sexual activity
on two or more occasions within a thirty-day period, three or more occasions
within a sixty-day period, or four or more occasions within a one-hundred-eighty-day
period shall to the extent permitted by law be deemed to be a regular and
substantial course of conduct.
SEMINUDE
A state of dress in which clothing covers no more than the genitals,
pubic region, buttocks, areola of the female breast, as well as portions of
the body covered by supporting straps or devices, such as by G-strings, pasties,
thongs, bikinis, or other similar forms of garments or devices.
SPECIFIED ANATOMICAL AREAS
Includes any of the following:
(1)
Less than completely and opaquely covered human genitals, pubic region,
buttocks and female breast below a point immediately above the top of the
areola; and
(2)
Human male genitals in a discernibly turgid state, even if completely
opaquely covered;
(3)
Any device, costume or covering that simulates any of the body part included in Subsections
(1) or
(2) above.
SPECIFIED SEXUAL ACTIVITIES
Includes any of the following, whether performed directly or indirectly
through clothing or other coverings:
(1)
Human genitals in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal;
(2)
Sexual acts, actual or simulated, including sexual intercourse, oral
copulation or sodomy;
(3)
Fondling or other erotic touching of human genitals, pubic region, buttocks
or female breast;
(4)
Masturbation, actual or simulated; and
(5)
Excretory functions as part of or in connection with any of the other activities described in Subsections
(1) through
(4) of this definition.