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ORDINANCE #90-7 <br /> <br />CITY OF RAMSEY <br />ANOKA COUNTY <br />STATE OF MINNESOTA <br /> <br />AN ORDINANCE PLACING A MORATORIUM ON THE SITING OF <br />ADULT BOOKSTORES AS DEFINED HEREIN WITHIN ANY ZONING <br />DISTRICT OF THE CITY OF RAMSEY <br /> <br />THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RAMSEY ORDAINS: <br /> <br />SECTION 1. PREAMBLE <br /> <br />Whereas, the Council finds that a business advertising itself as an "Adult Bookstores" is <br />contemplating doing business in the City of Ramsey in the City's B-1 Business District <br />zone; and <br /> <br />Whereas, the Council finds that proper planning for the siting of Adult Bookstore within <br />the City is necessary in order to protect the City's planning process and the health, safety <br />and welfare of the citizens; and <br /> <br />Whereas, the Council finds that an interim ordinance placing a moratorium on the siting <br />and/or use of any property within the City as an Adult Bookstore is necessary in order to <br />permit the planning process to take place; and <br /> <br />Whereas, the Council finds that it is necessary for an immediate preservation of the public <br />peace, health, morals, safety and welfare that an emergency interim ordinance be adopted <br />prohibiting the siting, maintaining and operating of Adult Bookstores within the City <br />pending completion of the planning process relating thereto. <br /> <br />SECTION 2. AUTHORITY <br /> <br />This Ordinance is adopted pursuant to that authority granted the City in MSA 462.355 <br />Subd. 4 entitled "Interim Ordinance" and City Charter provision Section 3.06 entitled <br />"Emergency Ordinances". <br /> <br />SECTION 3. DEFINITIONS <br /> <br />ADULT BOOKSTORE: A business engaging in the barter, rental, or sale of <br />items consisting of printed matter, pictures, slides, records, audiotapes, videotapes <br />or motion picture film, if such shop is not open to the public generally but only to <br />one or more classes of the public, excluding any minor by reason of age, or if a <br />substantial or significant portion of such items are distinguished or characterized by <br />an emphasis on the depiction or description of "specified sexual activities" or <br />"specified anatomical areas". <br /> <br />SPECIFIED ANATOMICAL AREAS: <br /> <br />Less than completely and opaquely covered human genitals, pubic region, <br />buttock, anus, or female breast(s) below a point immediately above the <br />top of the areola; and, <br /> <br /> <br />