Osceola County |
Code of Ordinances |
Chapter 13. LICENSES, TAXATION AND MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS REGULATIONS |
Article IV. ADULT ENTERTAINMENT ESTABLISHMENTS |
Division 4. GENERAL OPERATIONAL RULES |
§ 13-102. General requirements.
Each adult entertainment establishment is subject to all of the following general requirements and shall:
(1)
Conform to all applicable building, fire, health, zoning, and land use and land development statutes, codes, ordinances, and regulations, whether federal, state or local.
(2)
Keep the adult entertainment license posted in a conspicuous place at the establishment available for inspection by the public at all times.
(3)
Cover opaquely each window or other opening through which a person outside the establishment may otherwise see inside the establishment.
(4)
Maintain all exterior walls and surfaces of the establishment, excluding signs, a single achromatic or light pastel color, and shall maintain all awnings, canopies, window shutters, window treatment, or other trim the same color or a single different shade of the same achromatic or light pastel color. The trim color shall not exceed twenty (20) percent of the entire exterior surface of the building. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to require the painting of an otherwise unpainted exterior portion establishment such as brick or stone.
(5)
Install, construct, keep, maintain, or allow only those signs at the establishment as provided in this subsection, notwithstanding the county's sign ordinance, or any other regulation to the contrary.
a.
A sign shall not contain any flashing lights, photographs, silhouettes, drawings or pictorial representation of any manner (except for the logo of the establishment, provided the logo shall not contain any specified anatomical areas, or any male or female forms at or below the clavicle), and the sign shall contain only the following:
1.
The name of the establishment, and/or
2.
One (1) or more of the following applicable phrases:
a.
"Adult Bookstore";
b.
"Adult Theater";
c.
"Adult Dancing Establishment";
d.
"Adult Motel";
e.
"Adult Entertainment";
f.
"Movie titles posted within premises."
b.
No sign shall contain in the name or logo of the establishment, or otherwise, the words "nude", "nudity", "naked", "topless", "go-go", or "dancers" or other words or material depicting or describing, specified anatomical areas or specified sexual activities.
c.
Each letter forming a word on a sign shall be of a solid color and of the same print-type, size and color, except any word which is normally capitalized shall be allowed to use a capital letter at the beginning of the word. The background behind such lettering on the display surface shall be of a uniform solid color.
(Ord. No. 93-9, § 27, 5-24-93)