Town of Madison, ME
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2022-06-14
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Division 1: Code of Ordinances
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Part II: Regulatory Ordinances
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Chapter 134 Adult Entertainment
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Article I Legislative Findings; Purpose
- Division 1: Code of Ordinances
- Part I: Administrative Ordinances
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 7 Appeals, Board of
- Ch 18 Budget Advisory Committee
- Ch 26 Cemeteries, Town
- Ch 44 Emergency Management
- Ch 49 Ethics, Code of
- Ch 53 Expenditures
- Ch 62 Fire Department
- Ch 95 Library, Public
- Ch 112 Planning Board
- Ch 120 Recall of Elected Officials
- Ch 126 Town Meetings
- Part II: Regulatory Ordinances
- Ch 134 Adult Entertainment
- Ch 134 Art I Legislative Findings; Purpose
- § 134-1 Legislative findings.
- § 134-2 Purpose.
- Ch 137 Alarms
- Ch 142 Amusement Permits, Special
- Ch 148 Animals
- Ch 154 Automobile Graveyards and Junkyards
- Ch 165 Building Construction
- Ch 168 Cable Television
- Ch 173 Curfew
- Ch 180 Drugs and Drug Paraphernalia
- Ch 189 Excavations
- Ch 200 General Assistance
- Ch 245 Local Food and Community Self-Governance
- Ch 256 Mass Gatherings
- Ch 262 Needle Exchange Program, Needle Disposal Sites and Medical Supervised Injection Sites
- Ch 271 Obscenity
- Ch 285 Parks, Cemeteries and Water-Access Areas
- Ch 288 Property Assessed Clean Energy
- Ch 290 Property Maintenance
- Ch 294 Radioactive Wastes
- Ch 303 Sewage Disposal
- Ch 308 Sex Offenders
- Ch 316 Skateboarding
- Ch 321 Sludge and Septage
- Ch 327 Solid Waste and Recycling
- Ch 339 Street Design and Construction Standards
- Ch 343 Street Naming and House Numbering
- Ch 399 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 405 Vehicles, Recreational
- Part III: Land Use Ordinances
- Ch 422 Floodplain Management
- Ch 478 Shoreland Zoning
- Ch 484 Site Review
- Ch 490 Subdivision of Land
- Division 2: Board of Selectmen Regulations
- Ch 503 Adoption of Code by Board of Selectmen
- Ch 508 All-Terrain Vehicles, Town-Owned
- Ch 514 Animal Control
- Ch 532 (Reserved)
- Ch 539 Complaints
- Ch 550 Donations
- Ch 554 Drug and Alcohol Prevention Policy
- Ch 565 Electrical Service Connections
- Ch 566 Electronic Sign Usage Policy
- Ch 567 Emergency Operations
- Ch 572 Expenditure of Public Funds
- Ch 577 Fair Housing
- Ch 583 Fees
- Ch 588 Fill and Earthen Material
- Ch 591 Fixed Assets
- Ch 606 Investment Policy
- Ch 632 Lost Merchandise
- Ch 644 Meetings
- Ch 667 Parks and Recreation Areas
- Ch 673 Personnel Policies
- Ch 679 Public Ways, Maintenance of
- Ch 688 Registrar Hours Prior to Election
- Ch 690 Revenues, Collection of
- Ch 694 Roads and Highways
- Ch 702 Smoking
- Ch 707 Social Services Appropriations Policy
- Ch 713 Streetlighting Guidelines
- Ch 720 Tax-Acquired Property, Disposition of
- Ch 724 Taxes, Property
- Ch 729 Tax Increment Financing
- Ch 738 Town Property, Use of
- Ch 742 Treasurer's Disbursement Warrants
- Ch 767 Warning Sign Requests
- Ch 775 Wood and Brush Removal
- Appendix
- Ch A999 List of Special Acts
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
A.
A number of commercial premises in Maine offer nude dancing and other
nude performances as a form of public entertainment.
B.
Recently, there has been an interest in locating such an establishment
in the Town of Madison.
C.
The types of nude entertainment offered by such establishments and
regulated by this chapter are a purely commercial activity, unrelated
to free expression and the exchange of ideas.
D.
Unlimited commercial exploitation of nudity can induce individuals
to engage in prostitution, sexual assaults, breaches of the peace
and other criminal activity.
E.
Persons under the age of 18, by reason of their age and inexperience,
are especially susceptible to prostitution and other criminal activity
if employed by or allowed entrance as patrons of commercial premises
offering nude entertainment.
F.
Commercial premises offering nude entertainment should be sited in
locations that minimize their negative effects on public health, safety
and welfare.
The purpose of this chapter is to regulate nudity as a form
of commercial exploitation and to regulate dress as a form of conduct
and not to impede the free exchange and expression of ideas. In view
of the foregoing legislative findings, and for the purpose of protecting
the public health, safety and welfare, the Town of Madison hereby
adopts the following regulations of commercial nudity.
