As used in this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meaning set forth below:
"Adult-oriented business"means:
1. Any business, where employees, independent contractors, or patrons expose specified anatomical areas or engage in specified sexual activities, or any business which offers to its patrons services or entertainment characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, exposing, describing, discussing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
Adult-oriented businesses do not include bona fide medical establishments operated by properly licensed and registered medical personnel with appropriate medical credentials for the treatment of patients. Adult-oriented businesses also do not include athletic or exercise facilities where specified anatomical areas may be exposed within a single-sex locker room or similar facility used for changing clothing where such exposure is primarily done in conjunction with changing or showering after use of the athletic or exercise facilities. An adult-oriented business also does not include a bona fide theater as defined in this section. |
Adult-oriented businesses do not include those uses or activities, the regulation of which is preempted by state law. Adult-oriented businesses shall also include any business establishment or concern, which, as a regular and substantial course of conduct provides or allows performers, models, actors, actresses, employees or independent contractors to appear in any place semi-nude or in attire which does not opaquely cover specified anatomical areas. |
In determining whether a use is an adult-oriented business, only conduct or activities which constitute a regular and substantial course of conduct shall be considered. Substantial conduct includes any use which has 25% of its floor area, stock-in-trade, entertainment/performance, or revenue derived from material characterized by an emphasis on matters depicting, exposing, describing, discussing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas. Isolated instances of conduct or activities described in this section as characterizing an adult-oriented business shall not be considered except where such activities, taken together, constitute a regular and substantial course of conduct. |
2. Adult-oriented business includes, but shall not be limited to, the following:
a. Adult Arcade.An "adult arcade" means 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 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.
b. Adult Bookstore.An "adult bookstore" is an establishment which has, as a substantial portion of its stock-in-trade, a majority of its floor area, or revenue derived from and offering for sale for any form of consideration, any one or more of the following:
i. Books, magazines, periodicals, or other printed matter, photographs, films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides or other visual representations which are characterized by an emphasis upon the depiction or description of specified anatomical areas or specified sexual activities;
ii. Instruments, devices, or paraphernalia which are designed for use in connection with specified sexual activities; or
iii. Goods which are replicas of, or which simulate, specified anatomical areas, or goods which are designed to be placed on or in specified anatomical areas or to be used in conjunction with specified sexual activities, to cause sexual excitement.
c. Adult Cabaret.An "adult cabaret" is a bar, nightclub, lounge, restaurant, juice bar or similar establishment or concern which features as a regular and substantial course of conduct any type of live entertainment, films, motion pictures, videos, slides, other photographic reproductions or other oral, written, or visual representations which are characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual activities, or specified anatomical areas, including, dancers, strippers, or similar entertainers who appear semi-nude and expose specified anatomical areas of their bodies or simulate or engage in specified sexual activities.
d. Adult Motel.An "adult motel" means a hotel, motel or similar commercial establishment which:
i. Offers accommodations to the public for any form of consideration; provides patrons with closedcircuit television transmissions or other medium, films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides, or other photographic reproductions which are distinguished or characterized by the depiction or description of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas and has a sign visible from the public right-of-way which advertises the availability of this adult type of photographic reproductions; or
ii. Offers or advertises a sleeping room for rent for a period of time that is less than ten hours in a 24 hour period; or
iii. Allows a tenant or occupant of a sleeping room to subrent the room for a period of time that is less than ten hours in a 24 hour period.
e. Adult Motion Picture Theater.An "adult motion picture theater" means a commercial establishment where, for any form of consideration, films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides or similar photographic reproductions are regularly shown which are characterized by the depiction or description of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
f. Adult Tanning Salon.An "adult tanning salon" or "parlor" means a business establishment where patrons receive tanning services in groups of two or more and where patrons, employees, or independent contractors of the establishment appear semi-nude or expose specified anatomical areas. Adult tanning salon or parlor shall also include a business establishment where a patron and an employee of the establishment are nude, semi-nude or expose specified anatomical areas. An adult tanning salon or parlor shall also include a business establishment where the employees or independent contractors thereof are nude, semi-nude or expose specified anatomical areas.
g. Adult Theater.An "adult theater" is any place, building, enclosure, theater, concert hall, auditorium, or structure, partially or entirely used for live performances or presentations, which place, building, enclosure, theater, concert hall, auditorium, or structure is used for presenting matter characterized by an emphasis on simulating, pantomiming, exposing, describing, or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas, for observation by patrons therein. Such place shall also include an adult theater wherein persons are regularly featured appearing in a state of nudity or semi-nudity, on-going performances which are characterized by the exposure of specified sexual activities or by specified anatomical areas. An adult theater shall not mean a bona fide theater.
i. Nude Model Studio.A "nude model studio" means any place or premises where a person who appears in a state of nudity or semi-nudity, or displays specified anatomical areas is provided to be conversed with or be observed, sketched, drawn, painted, sculptured, photographed or similarly depicted by other persons, for any form of consideration. Nude model studio shall not include any classroom of any public agency or school licensed under state law to provide art education, while such classroom is being used in a manner consistent with such state license.
j. Sex Supermarket/Sex Mini-Mall.A "sex supermarket/sex mini-mall" means the establishment or operation of more than one type of adult-oriented business or use as defined in this chapter within the same building.
k. Sexual Encounter Center.A "sexual encounter center" means a business or commercial enterprise that, as one of its primary business purposes, offers for any form of consideration:
i. Physical contact in the form of wrestling or tumbling between persons of the same or opposite sex when either or both of them are nude, semi-nude or displaying or exposing specified anatomical areas; or
ii. Activities between male and female persons and/or persons of the same sex when one or more of the persons is in a state of nudity or is semi-nude.
l. Sexual Novelty Store.A "sexual novelty store" is an establishment having, as a substantial portion of its stock-in-trade, a majority of its floor area, or a majority of its revenue derived from goods which are replicas of, or which simulate specified anatomical areas or specified sexual activities, or goods which are designed to be placed on or in specified anatomical areas, or to be used in conjunction with specified sexual activities, to cause sexual excitement, including, but not limited to, dildos, auto sucks, sexually oriented vibrators, edible underwear, benwa balls, inflatable orifices, anatomical balloons with orifices, simulated and battery operated vaginas.
m. Sexually-Oriented Business.A "sexually-oriented business," is any business not otherwise defined or provided for herein where employees, independent contractors, or patrons appear in a state of nudity, semi-nudity or expose specified anatomical areas or engage in or simulate specified sexual activities, or any business which offers to its patrons services or entertainment characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, exposing, describing, discussing, or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas located, or proposed to be located, within the city.
n. Theater.A "theater" means a theater, concert hall, or similar establishment that is primarily devoted to the production of artistic dance, literary, dramatic, or comedic performances on stage. If any such performance depicts, exposes, describes, or relates to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas, the theater shall be an adult-oriented business unless one or more of the following is true:
i. In every single regular performance, any emphasis on matters depicting, exposing, describing, or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas is on an occasional or incidental basis; or
ii. The performance is primarily devoted to a verbal presentation and the spoken emphasis on matters depicting, describing, or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas is not a significant portion of the entire verbal display; or
iii. The performance is primarily devoted to a visual presentation and the emphasis on matters depicting, exposing, describing, or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas is not intended to appeal to prurient or sexual interests.
"Couch dance" or "couch dancing" also includes "chair dancing" and "table dancing"and means an employee or independent contractor of an adult-oriented business intentionally touching any patron while appearing in a state of nudity, semi-nudity or engaged in the display or exposure of any specified anatomical area or while simulating any specified sexual activity. A couch dance also includes an employee or an independent contractor of an adult-oriented business performing off-stage and within ten feet of any patron while engaged in the display or exposure of any specified anatomical area or while simulating any specified sexual activity.
"Establishment"means and includes any of the following:
1. The opening or commencement of an adult-oriented business as a new business;
2. The conversion of an existing business, whether or not an adult-oriented business, to any adultoriented business;
3. The addition of any adult-oriented business to any other existing adult-oriented business or to another existing business, with or without expansion of floor area;
4. The relocation of any adult-oriented business; or
5. The expansion or enlargement of the adult-oriented business premises by ten percent or more of the existing floor area.
"Person"means and includes person(s), firms, corporations, partnerships, associations, limited liability companies, joint ventures, or any other form of business organization or group(s).
"Private viewing area"means an area or areas in an adult-oriented business designed to accommodate no more than five or less patrons or customers for purposes of viewing or watching a performance, picture, show, film, videotape, slide, movie or other presentation. No private viewing areas shall be established, maintained, or authorized, and there shall be no doors, curtains, stalls or other enclosures creating a private viewing area.
"Semi-nude"means a state of dress in which clothing, including supporting straps or devices, covers no more than the genitals, pubic region and areola of the female breast.
"Specified anatomical areas"means and includes any of the following human anatomical areas:
1. Less than completely and opaquely covered genitals, pubic regions, buttocks, anuses 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 completely and opaquely covered.
"Specific criminal act"also means specified criminal acts and includes sexual crimes against children; sexual abuse; rape; or crimes connected with another adult-oriented business including, but not limited to, the distribution of obscenity; convictions involving the distribution, display or sale of material harmful to minors; prostitution; or pandering. Specified criminal acts shall exclude those acts which are authorized or required to be kept confidential pursuant to Welfare and Institutions Code Sections
600 to
900.
"Specified sexual activities"means and includes all the following:
1. The fondling or other erotic touching of the following human anatomical areas: genitals, pubic regions, buttocks, anuses or female breasts;
2. Human sex acts, normal or perverted, actual or simulated, including intercourse, oral copulation or sodomy;
3. Human masturbation, actual or simulated;
4. The actual or simulated infliction of pain by one human upon another, or by an individual upon him or herself, for the purpose of the sexual gratification or release of either individual, as a result of flagellation, beating, striking, or touching of an erogenous zone, including without limitation, the thigh, genitals, buttock, pubic region, or, if such person is a female, a breast;
5. Sexual intercourse, actual or simulated, between a human being and an animal; or
6. Excretory functions as part of or in connection with any of the activities set forth in (1) through (5), above.
(Ord. 00-01 § 3, 2000; Ord. 00-02 § 2, 2000)