The words and terms used in this chapter shall have the following
meanings:
ADULT ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS
A.
A public establishment which features topless dancers, nude
dancers or strippers, male or female; or
B.
An enclosed building or open stand used for presenting, lending
or selling motion-picture films, videocassettes, cable television
or any other such visual media, or used for presenting, lending or
selling books, magazines, publications or any other written materials
distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting,
describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified
anatomical areas as hereafter defined.
PERSON
A human being, a public or private corporation, an unincorporated
association or a partnership.
SPECIFIED ANATOMICAL AREAS
A.
Less than completely and opaquely covered human genitals, pubic
region, buttock and female breast below a point immediately above
the top of the areola; or
B.
Human male genitals in a discernibly turgid state, even if completely
and opaquely covered.
SPECIFIED SEXUAL ACTIVITIES
A.
Human genitals in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal;
B.
Acts of human masturbation, sexual intercourse or sodomy; or
C.
Fondling or other erotic touching of human genitals, pubic region,
buttock or female breast.
Adult entertainment businesses are prohibited within:
A. One thousand feet of any residential zoning district or any single-family,
two-family or multiple-family dwelling, including structures devoted
to both residential and commercial or business purposes.
B. One thousand feet of any public or private school.
C. One thousand feet of any church or other religious facility or institution.
D. One thousand feet of any public park.
The distance provided in this chapter shall be measured by following
a straight line, without regard to intervening buildings, from the
nearest point of the property parcel upon which the adult entertainment
business is to be located to the nearest point of the parcel of property
or the land use district boundary line from which the adult entertainment
business is to be separated.
This chapter is enacted pursuant to the power granted to the
Village by, including, but not limited to, the New York State Constitution,
the New York Municipal Home Rule Law, the New York State General Municipal
Law and the New York State Village Law.