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Council Member Neal and moved its adoption: introduced the following Ordinance CITY OF LINO LAKES ORDINANCE NO. 93-16 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE LINO LAKES CITY CODE, SECTION 600 (BUSINESS AND ACTIVITY LICENSING) BY ADDING PROVISIONS ADDRESSING ADULT USES. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LINO LAKES ORDAINS: }flection 1. Section 600 of the Lino Lakes City Code is hereby amended by adding the following: 613. ADULT USES 613.01: PURPOSE AND INTENT. (1) It is the purpose of this Section to regulate adult use sexually -oriented businesses to promote the health, safety, morals, and general welfare of the citizens of the City, to guard against the inception and transmission of disease, and to establish reasonable and uniform regulations. The provisions of this Section have neither the purpose nor effect of imposing a limitation or restriction on the content of any communicative materials, including sexually -oriented materials. Similarly, it is not the intent nor effect of this Section to restrict or deny access by adults to sexually - oriented materials protected by the First Amendment, or to deny access by the distributors and exhibitors of sexually - oriented entertainment to their intended market. (2) The City Council further finds that experience from other cities demonstrates that adult use businesses conducted in private by members of the same or the opposite sex, and employing personnel with no specialized training, are susceptible to operation in a manner contravening, subverting or endangering the health, safety and welfare of members of the community by being the sites of acts of prostitution, illicit sex, and occasions of violent crimes, thus requiring close inspection, licensing, and regulation.