A.
Purpose. It is the purpose of this chapter to regulate sexually oriented businesses in order to promote the health, safety, morals and general welfare of citizens of the Village of Saukville and to establish reasonable and uniform regulations to prevent the deleterious location and concentration of sexually oriented businesses within the Village of Saukville. The provisions of this chapter have neither the purpose nor effect of imposing a limitation or restriction on the content of any communicative materials, including sexually oriented materials. Similarly, it is neither the intent nor effect of this chapter to restrict or deny access by adults to sexually oriented materials protected by the First Amendment or to deny access by the distributors and exhibitors of sexually oriented entertainment to their intended market. Neither is it the intent nor effect of this chapter to condone or legitimize the distribution of obscene material.
B.
Findings. Based on evidence concerning the adverse secondary effects of adult uses on the community presented in hearings and in reports made available to the Village, and on findings incorporated in the cases of Young v. American Mini Theatres, 426 U.S. 50 (1976), City of Renton v. Playtime Theatres, Inc., 475 U.S. 41 (1986), FW/PBS Inc. v. City of Dallas, 493 U.S. 215 (1990), Barnes v. Glen Theatre, Inc. 501 U.S. 560 (1991), City of Erie v. Pap's A.M., 529 U.S. 277 (2000), East of River Enterprises v. City of Hudson, Case No. 99-1801 (Unpublished)(Wis. Ct. App., April 11, 2000), East of River Enterprises v. City of Hudson, Case No. 99-2667 (Unpublished)(Wis. Ct. App., Aug. 1, 2000) and Ben's Bar, Inc. v. City of Somerset, 316 F.3d 702 (7th Cir. 2003), and on studies in other communities including, but not limited to: Phoenix, Arizona; Houston, Texas; Minneapolis, Minnesota; St. Paul, Minnesota; Indianapolis, Indiana; Amarillo, Texas; Garden Grove, California; Los Angeles, California; Whittier, California; Austin, Texas; Seattle, Washington; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Cleveland, Ohio; Beaumont, Texas; Dallas, Texas; Newport News, Virginia; Bellevue, Washington; New York, New York; and St. Croix County, Wisconsin, and the Report of the Attorney General's Working Group on Sexually Oriented Businesses (June 6, 1989, State of Minnesota), and statistics obtained from the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Village Board finds that:
(1)
Sexually oriented businesses lend themselves to ancillary and unlawful and unhealthy activities that are presently uncontrolled by the operators of the establishments. Further, there is presently no mechanism to make the owners of these establishments responsible for the activities that occur on their premises.
(2)
Certain employees of sexually oriented businesses, defined in this chapter as adult theaters and adult cabarets, engage in higher incidences of certain types of illicit sexual behavior than employees of other establishments.
(3)
Sexual acts, including masturbation and oral and anal sex, occur at sexually oriented businesses, especially those which provide private or semiprivate booths or cubicles for viewing films, videos or live sex shows.
(4)
Offering and providing such space encourages such activities, which creates unhealthy conditions.
(5)
Persons frequent certain adult theaters, adult arcades and other sexually oriented businesses for the purposes of engaging in sex within the premises of such sexually oriented businesses.
(6)
At least 50 communicable diseases may be spread by activities occurring in sexually oriented businesses, including but not limited to, syphilis, gonorrhea, human immunodeficiency virus infection (HIV-AIDS), genital herpes, hepatitis B, Non A, Non B, amebiasis, salmonella infections and shigella infections.
(7)
Since 1981 and to the present, there has been an increasing cumulative number of reported cases of AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) caused by the HIV virus in the United States: 600 in 1982; 2,200 in 1983, 4,600 in 1984; 8,555 in 1985, and 253,448 through December 31, 1992.
(8)
The State of Wisconsin Division of Health indicated that on July 25, 1986, there were 96 cases of AIDS reported in the state, including 54 cases that resulted in death and that a ten-fold increase in reported cases was expected between 1986 and 1991.
(9)
The number of cases of early (less than 1 year) syphilis in the United States reported annually has risen, with 33,613 cases reported in 1982, and 45,200 through November 1990.
(10)
The number of cases of gonorrhea in the United States reported annually remains at a high level, with over one-half million cases being reported in 1990.
(11)
In his report of October 22, 1986, the Surgeon General of the United States has advised the American public that AIDS and HIV infection may be transmitted through sexual contact, intravenous drug abuse, exposure to infected blood and blood components and from an infected mother to her newborn.
(12)
According to the best scientific evidence, AIDS and HIV infection, as well as syphilis and gonorrhea, are principally transmitted by sexual acts.
(13)
Sanitary conditions in some sexually oriented businesses are unhealthy in part, because the activities conducted there are unhealthy, and, in part, because of the unregulated nature of the activities and the failure of the owners and the operators of the facilities to self-regulate those activities and maintain those facilities.
(14)
Numerous studies and reports have determined that semen is found in the areas of sexually oriented businesses where persons view adult-oriented films.
(15)
Crime statistics show that all types of crimes, especially sex-related crimes, occur with more frequency in neighborhoods where sexually oriented businesses are located.
(16)
Studies of the relationship between sexually oriented businesses and neighborhood property values have found a negative impact on both residential and commercial property values.
(17)
There is an increase in the potential for infiltration by organized crime for the purpose of unlawful conduct.
(18)
The consumption of alcoholic beverages on the premises of sexually oriented businesses exacerbates the deleterious secondary effects of such businesses on the community. In fact, the Supreme Court has gone so far as to assert that "[c]ommon sense indicates that any form of nudity coupled with alcohol begets undesirable behavior." Ben's Bar, 316 F.3d 702, citing New York State Liquor Auth. v. Bellanca, 452 U.S. 714, 718 (1981).
(19)
Sexually oriented businesses have operational characteristics which should be reasonably regulated in order to protect the substantial government concerns addressed in the above subsections.
(20)
A reasonable licensing procedure is an appropriate mechanism to place the burden of that reasonable regulation on the owners and the operators of the sexually oriented businesses. Further, such a licensing procedure will place an incentive on the operators to see that the sexually oriented business is run in a manner consistent with the health, safety and welfare of its patrons and employees, as well as the citizens of the Village. It is appropriate to require reasonable assurances that the licensee is the actual operator of the sexually oriented business, fully in possession and control of the premises and activities occurring therein.
(21)
The disclosure of certain information by those persons ultimately responsible for the day-to-day operation and maintenance of the sexually oriented business, where such information is substantially related to the significant governmental interest in the operation of such uses, will aid in preventing the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.
(22)
In the prevention of the spread of communicable diseases, it is desirable to obtain a limited amount of information regarding certain employees who may engage in the conduct which this chapter is designed to prevent or who are likely to witness such conduct.
(23)
The general welfare, health, morals and safety of the citizens of the Village of Saukville will be promoted by the enactment of this chapter.