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The purpose of this chapter is to regulate adult businesses, to promote the health, safety and general welfare of the citizens of the city of Commerce and to establish reasonable and uniform regulations to prevent any deleterious location of sexually oriented businesses within the city, thereby reducing or eliminating the adverse secondary effects from such sexually oriented businesses. The provisions of this chapter have neither the purpose nor the effect of imposing a limitation or restriction on the content of, or access to any communicative materials, as provided by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution and the California Constitution, including sexually oriented materials. Similarly, it is neither the intent nor the effect of this chapter to restrict or deny access to distributors and exhibitors of sexually oriented entertainment to their intended market. Lastly, it is not the intent or the effect of this chapter to condone or legitimize the distribution of obscene material.
(Ord. 539 §2(part), 1999).