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City, and to establish reasonable and uniform regulations to prevent the deleterious <br />location and concentration of sexually oriented businesses within the City, thereby <br />reducing or eliminating the adverse secondary effects from such sexually oriented <br />businesses. The provisions of this Chapter are not intended to impose a limitation <br />or restriction on the content of any communicative materials, including sexually <br />oriented materials. It is not the intent of this Chapter to restrict or deny access by <br />adults to sexually oriented materials protected by the First Amendment or the <br />Colorado Constitution, or to deny access by the distributors and exhibitors of <br />sexually oriented entertainment to their intended market. Neither is it the intent nor <br />effect of this section to condone or legitimize the distribution of obscene material. <br /> <br />5.18.020 Definitions. <br /> The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this Chapter, shall <br />have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly <br />indicates a different meaning: <br /> <br />Adult arcade shall have the meaning set forth in Chapter 17.08 of this Code. <br /> <br /> Adult bookstore, adult novelty store, or adult video store shall have the <br />meaning set forth in Chapter 17.08 of this Code. <br /> <br /> Adult cabaret shall have the meaning set forth in Chapter 17.08 of this <br />Code. <br /> <br /> Adult motel means a hotel, motel or similar commercial establishment which <br />offers accommodations to the public for any form of consideration and provides <br />patrons with closed-circuit television transmission, films, motion pictures, video <br />cassettes, slides, or other photographic productions however produced which are <br />characterized by the depiction or description of "specified sexual activities" or <br />"specified anatomical areas"; and has a sign visible from the public right-of-way <br />which advertises the availability of this adult type of photographic reproductions. <br /> <br /> Adult motion picture theater shall have the meaning set forth in Chapter <br />17.08 of this Code. <br /> <br />Adult theater shall have the meaning set forth in Chapter 17.08 of this Code. <br /> <br /> Commercial Establishment shall have the meaning set forth in Chapter <br />17.08 of this Code. <br /> <br /> Employee means a person who works or performs in and/or for a sexually <br />oriented business, regardless of whether or not said person is paid a salary, wage, or <br />other compensation by the operator of said business. <br /> <br /> <br />