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• • <br />Section 7 Additional Regulations for Adult Theaters and Adult <br /> Motion Picture Theaters. <br />Section 8 Additional Regulations for Adult Motels. <br />Section 9 Regulations Pertaining to Exhibition of Adult Explicit <br /> Films or Videos. <br />Section 10 Enforcement. <br />Section 11 Amendments. <br />ADULT ORIENTED BUSINESSES <br />SECTION. 1. PURPOSE AND INTENT <br />(A) The purpose of these regulations on adult oriented businesses is to <br />promote the health, safety, morals, and general welfare of the citizens of the City, and <br />to establish reasonable and uniform regulations to prevent the concentration of adult <br />oriented businesses within the City. The provisions of these regulations have neither <br />the purpose nor effect of imposing a limitation or restriction on the content of any <br />communicative materials, including adult oriented materials. Similarly, it is not the intent <br />nor effect of these regulations to restrict or deny access by adults to adult oriented <br />materials protected by the First Amendment, or to deny access by the distributors and <br />exhibitors of adult oriented entertainment to their intended market. <br />(B) The location regulations of Section 5 are enacted pursuant to the <br />authority of Chapter 211 of the Local Government Code. All other provisions of these <br />regulations are enacted pursuant to the City's police power and the authority of Article <br />XI, Section 5 of the Texas Constitution. <br />SECTION. 2. DEFINITIONS <br />Adult Arcade means any place to which the public is permitted or invited wherein <br />coin-operated or slug-operated or electronically, electrically, or mechanically controlled <br />still or motion picture machines, projectors, or other image-producing devices are <br />maintained to show images to five or fewer persons per machine at any one time, and <br />where the images so displayed are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on <br />matter depicting, describing or relating to "specified sexual activities" or "specified <br />anatomical areas." <br />Adult Bookstore or Adult Video Store means: <br />(A) A commercial establishment which as one of its principal business <br />purposes offers for sale or rental for any form of consideration any one or more of the <br />following: <br />0:\CLP\Ordinance\SOBs\Sexually Oriented Businesses Ordinance 3 <br />Draft No. 3 <br />August 20, 1996 <br />