§ 4-27. Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Adult bookstore means an establishment having a substantial or significant portion of its stock in trade devoted to the sale or rental of books, magazines, newspapers, video tapes, video discs, motion picture films, or any other media, whether printed or electronic, which are characterized by their emphasis on portrayals of specific sexual activities or specific anatomical areas, or an establishment with a segment or section devoted to the display of such materials.

Adult cabaret means an establishment which features one or more dancers, strippers, male or female impersonators, or similar entertainers, performers, wait staff, or other persons who reveal or show specific anatomical areas of their bodies or who engage in, perform or simulate specific sexual activities.

Adult entertainment business means adult bookstores, adult cabarets, adult novelty businesses, adult motion picture theaters, adult personal service businesses, and restricted adult businesses.

Adult motion picture theater means an establishment used for presenting to others motion picture films, video cassettes, cable television, or other visual media distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on specified anatomical areas or specified sexual activities for observation by patrons therein.

Adult novelty business means an establishment which offers for sale devices which simulate human genitals or devices designed for sexual simulation.

Adult personal services business means an establishment having a person or persons, while nude or while displaying specified anatomical areas, providing personal services for another person or persons, which include, but are not limited to, the following activities and services, if the person or persons providing the personal service are nude or display specified anatomical areas: massage parlors, exotic rubs, modeling studios, tattoo parlors, body painting studios, wrestling studios, and theatrical performances.

Establishment means a business or enterprise which utilizes any building, structure, premises, parcel, place, or area.

Massage parlor means any establishment where private massage is practiced, used, or made available as a principal use of the premises.

Restricted adult business means any of the uses defined in this section which are not customarily open to the public generally, but only to one or more classes of the public, excluding any minor by reason of age.

Specified anatomical areas means less than completely and opaquely covered human genitals, pubic regions, buttocks, female breasts below the point immediately above the line of the areola, and human male genitals in a discernibly turgid state, even if completely and opaquely covered.

Specified sexual activities means activities which include, but are not limited to, human genitals in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal; acts of masturbation, sexual intercourse, or sodomy; or fondling or other erotic touching of genitals, pubic regions, buttocks, or female breasts.

(Ord. No. 104, § 3, 2-20-1996)

Cross reference

Definitions generally, § 1-2.