A person commits a misdemeanor and shall be
punished accordingly if that person operates or causes to be operated
a sexually oriented business in any zoning district other than I-1
or I-2. Each day of operation constitutes a separate and distinct
crime.
Words, terms and phrases in this chapter shall
be defined as follows:
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 machines, projectors,
or other image-producing devices are regularly 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 their
emphasis upon matters exhibiting specified sexual activities or specified
anatomical areas.
ADULT BOOKSTORE, ADULT NOVELTY STORE or ADULT VIDEO STORE
A commercial establishment which has, as a significant or
substantial portion of its stock-in-trade, or derives a significant
or substantial portion of its revenues, or devotes a significant or
substantial portion of its interior business or advertising, or maintains
a substantial section of its sales or display space for the sale or
rental, for any form of consideration, of any one or more of the following:
A.
Books, magazines, periodicals or other printed
matter, or photographs, films, motion pictures, video cassettes, compact
discs, slides, or other visual representations, which are characterized
by their emphasis upon the exhibition or display of specified sexual
activities or specified anatomical areas;
B.
Instruments, devices, or paraphernalia which
are designed for use or marketed primarily for stimulation of human
genital organs or for sadomasochistic use or abuse of the user or
others.
ADULT CABARET
A nightclub, bar, restaurant, or similar commercial establishment
which regularly features:
A.
Persons who appear seminude; or
B.
Live performances which are characterized by
the exposure of specified anatomical areas or by specified sexual
activities; or
C.
Films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides
or other photographic reproductions which are characterized by the
exhibition or display of specified sexual activities or specified
anatomical areas.
ADULT MOTION-PICTURE THEATER
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.
ADULT THEATER
A theater, concert hall, auditorium, or similar commercial
establishment which regularly features persons who appear in a state
of nudity or seminude, or live performances which are characterized
by the exposure of specified anatomical areas or by specified sexual
activities.
DISTINGUISHED OR CHARACTERIZED BY AN EMPHASIS UPON
The dominant or principal theme of the object referenced.
For instance, when the phrase refers to films "which are distinguished
or characterized by an emphasis upon the exhibition or display of
specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas," the films
so described are those whose dominant or principal character and theme
are the exhibition or display of specified anatomical areas or specified
sexual activities.
ESCORT
A person who, for consideration, and for another person,
agrees or offers:
A.
To act as a companion, guide, or date; or
B.
To privately model lingerie; or
C.
To privately perform a striptease.
ESCORT AGENCY
A person or business association that, for a fee, tip, or
other consideration, furnishes, offers to furnish, or advertises to
furnish escorts as one of its primary business purposes.
ESTABLISH or ESTABLISHMENT
Includes any of the following:
A.
The opening or commencement of any sexually
oriented business as a new business;
B.
The conversion of an existing business, whether
or not a sexually oriented business, to any sexually oriented business;
C.
The addition of any sexually oriented business
to any other existing sexually oriented business; or
D.
The relocation of any sexually oriented business.
NUDE, NUDITY or A STATE OF NUDITY
The showing of the human male or female genitals, pubic area,
vulva, anus, or anal cleft with less than a fully opaque covering,
the showing of the female breast with less than a fully opaque covering
of any part of the nipple, or the showing of the covered male genitals
in a discernibly turgid state.
OPERATE or CAUSE TO BE OPERATED
To cause to function or to put or keep in a state of doing
business. "Operator" means any person on the premises of a sexually
oriented business who is authorized to exercise operational control
of the business, or who causes to function or who puts or keeps in
operation, the business. A person may be found to be operating or
causing to be operated a sexually oriented business regardless of
whether that person is an owner, part owner, or licensee of the business.
PERSON
An individual, proprietorship, partnership, corporation,
association, or other legal entity.
REGULARLY FEATURES or REGULARLY SHOWN
A consistent or substantial course of conduct, such that
the films or performances exhibited constitute a substantial portion
of the films or performances offered as a part of the ongoing business
of the sexually oriented business.
SEMINUDE or IN A SEMINUDE CONDITION
The showing of the female breast below a horizontal line
across the top of the areola at its highest point or the showing of
the male or female buttocks. This definition shall include the entire
lower portion of the human female breast, but shall not include any
portion of the cleavage of the human female breast, exhibited by a
dress, blouse, skirt, leotard, bathing suit, or other wearing apparel,
provided the areola is not exposed in whole or in part.
SEMINUDE MODEL STUDIO
A commercial establishment which regularly features a person
(or persons) who appears seminude and is provided to be observed,
sketched, drawn, painted, sculptured, or photographed by other persons
who pay money or any form of consideration.
SEXUAL ENCOUNTER CENTER
A business or commercial establishment that, as one of its
principal business purposes, offers, for any form of consideration,
a place where two or more persons may congregate, associate, or consort
for the purpose of specified sexual activities. The definition of
sexual encounter establishment or any sexually oriented businesses
shall not include an establishment where a medical practitioner, psychologist,
psychiatrist, or similar professional person licensed by the state
engages in medically approved and recognized sexual therapy.
SEXUALLY ORIENTED BUSINESS
An adult arcade, adult bookstore, adult novelty store, adult
video store, adult cabaret, adult motion-picture theater, adult theater,
escort agency, seminude model studio, or sexual encounter center.
SPECIFIED ANATOMICAL AREAS
A.
The human male genitals in a discernibly turgid
state, even if completely and opaquely covered; or
B.
Less than completely and opaquely covered human
genitals, pubic region, buttocks, or a female breast below a point
immediately above the top of the areola.
SPECIFIED SEXUAL ACTIVITIES
Any of the following:
A.
The fondling of another person's genitals, pubic
region, anus, or female breasts;
B.
Sex acts, normal or perverted, actual or simulated,
including intercourse, oral copulation, masturbation, or sodomy; or
C.
Excretory functions as part of, or in connection with, any of the activities set forth in Subsections
A and
B of this definition, above.