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46 <br />g. Church: A building, together with its accessory buildings and use; where persons <br />regularly assemble for religious purposes and which building, together with its <br />accessory buildings and uses, is maintained and controlled by a religious body <br />organized to sustain religious ceremonies and purposes. (Wayzata) <br />h. Church or religious institution means a building, together with its accessory <br />buildings and uses, where persons regularly assemble for religious worship and <br />which building, together with its accessory buildings and uses, is maintained and <br />controlled by a religious body organized to sustain public worship, including, but <br />not limited to, churches, chapels, temples and synagogues. (Maple Grove) <br />Church - A building, together with its accessory buildings and uses, where <br />persons regularly assemble for religious worship and which building, together <br />with its accessory buildings and uses, is maintained and controlled by a religious <br />body organized to sustain public worship. (Medina) <br />j. Church or place of religious worship: an institution that people regularly attend to <br />participate in or hold religious services, meetings and other activities. The term <br />"church" shall not carry secular connotation and shall include buildings in which <br />religious services of any denomination are held. (Hopkins) <br />k. Church means a building, together with its accessory buildings and uses, where <br />people regularly assemble for religious worship and which building, for a <br />religious body is organized to sustain public worship that maintains and controls <br />the building, together with its accessory buildings and uses. (Woodbury) <br />Church means a building or edifice consecrated to religious worship, where <br />people join together in some form of public worship under the aegis and direction <br />of a person who is authorized under the laws of the State of Minnesota to <br />solemnize marriages. A church may include living quarters for persons employed <br />on the premises and classroom facilities. The following are not considered as <br />churches: camp meeting grounds, mikvahs, coffee houses, recreational <br />complexes, retreat homes, sleeping quarters for retreatants during spiritual retreats <br />extending for periods of more than one day. Bible camps with live-in quarters, <br />publishing establishments, ritual slaughterhouses, radio or television towers and <br />transmission facilities, theological seminaries, day care centers, hospitals, and <br />drug treatment centers are not churches. (Chanhassen) <br />Definition of "Assembly" in Other Minnesota Communities <br />No other Minnesota city ordinances were identified that define the word "assembly," as <br />used in the City of Saint Anthony Village's Zoning Code. Most ordinances define assemblies for <br />large gatherings of people held for entertainment and other special events and activities. A <br />number of ordinances define "clubs." Based on the associated uses with assembly as listed in the <br />Zoning Code (i.e., lodge or convention hall), and as discussed previously, it is likely that the <br />-16- <br />STUDY OF ASSEMBLIES, MEETING LODGES, AND CONVENTION 11ALLS <br />Ci I Y OP SAINT ANTHONY VILLAGE <br />