[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township of Montague 5-11-04 as Ord. No. 2004-04. Amendments noted where applicable.]
A. 
SEXUALLY-ORIENTED BUSINESS — A commercial establishment which:
(1) 
As one of its principal business purposes offers for sale, rental, or display any of the following:
Books, magazines, periodicals or other printed material, or photographs, films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides or other visual representations which depict or describe a "specified sexual activity" or "specified anatomical area"; or still or motion picture machines, projectors or other image-producing devices which show images to one person per machine at any one time, and where the images so displayed are characterized by the depiction of a "specified sexual activity" or "specified anatomical area"; or instruments, devices, or paraphernalia which are designed for use in connection with a "specified sexual activity"; or(2) Regularly features live performances characterized by the exposure of a "specified anatomical area" or by a "specified sexual activity," or which regularly shows films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides, or other photographic representations which depict or describe a "specified sexual activity" or "specified anatomical area".
B. 
SPECIFIED ANATOMICAL AREA —
(1) 
Less than completely and opaquely covered human genitals, pubic region, buttock or female breasts below a point immediately above the top of the areola; or
(2) 
Human male genitals in a discernibly turgid state, even if covered.
C. 
SPECIFIED SEXUAL ACTIVITY —
(1) 
The fondling or other erotic touching of covered or uncovered human genitals, pubic region, buttock or female breast; or
(2) 
Any actual or simulated act of human masturbation, sexual intercourse or deviate sexual intercourse.
A. 
No person shall operate a sexually-oriented business within 2,500 feet of any existing sexually-oriented business, or any church, synagogue, temple or other place of public worship, or any elementary or secondary school or any school bus stop, or any municipal or county playground or place of public resort and recreation, or any hospital or any child care center, or within 2,500 feet of any area zoned for residential use. This subsection shall not apply to a sexually-oriented business already lawfully operating on the effective date of this chapter where another sexually-oriented business, an elementary or secondary school or school bus stop, or any municipal or county playground or place of public resort and recreation, or any hospital or any child care center, is subsequently established within 2,500 feet, or a residential district or residential lot is subsequently established within 2,500 feet.
B. 
Every sexually-oriented business shall be surrounded by a perimeter buffer of at least 100 feet in width with plantings, fence, or other physical divider along the outside of the perimeter sufficient to impede the view of the interior of the premises in which the business is located. This subsection shall not apply to a sexually-oriented business already lawfully operating on the effective date of this chapter.
C. 
No sexually-oriented business shall display more than two exterior signs, consisting of one identification sign and one sign giving notice that the premises are off limits to minors. The identification sign shall be no more than 40 square feet in size.
A. 
Any person, as defined above, who shall violate any of the prohibitions of this chapter shall, upon conviction, be subject to a fine not exceeding $1,000 or be imprisoned for a term not exceeding 90 days, or both, for each and every offense.
B. 
Every day that the provisions of this chapter are violated by any person as defined herein shall be a separate and distinct violation of this chapter.
A violation of this chapter shall also be grounds for revocation of any license or certificate of occupancy issued by the municipality on the premises.