§ 4-67. Restricted.

(a)

A person commits an offense if such person operates or causes to be operated a sexually oriented business within two thousand (2,000) feet of:

(1)

A church or other building used for religious use;

(2)

A public or private day care center, or school of any kind;

(3)

A boundary of a residential district;

(4)

A public park including, but not limited to, any property with water frontage;

(5)

The property line of a lot devoted to a residential use;

(6)

A public building of any kind or nature;

(7)

A hotel, motel, apartment, duplex or condo not requiring a license under this chapter.

(b)

A person commits an offense if such person causes or permits the operation, establishment, substantial enlargement, or transfer of ownership or control of a sexually oriented business within two thousand (2,000) feet of another sexually oriented business.

(c)

For the purposes of this section, measurements shall be made in a straight line, without regard to intervening structures or objects, from the nearest property line of the land upon which the sexually oriented business is located or proposed to be located to the nearest property line of any use listed in subsection (a) of this section.

(Ord. No. 190, § 13, 9-16-2003)

State law reference

Permissible scope of location regulations, V.T.C.A., Local Government Code § 243.006.