A. The city council finds and declares that there exists in the city a tendency toward a display of adult magazines, books and videocassette tapes in liquor stores, grocery stores, drugstores and other retail outlets in such a manner that children, often of tender years, are exposed to videocassettes, book and magazine covers depicting explicit sexual activity and showing human genitals and pubic regions in a sexually explicit manner. The city council finds that such exposure establishes a tone in the community inconsistent with morality and good order and creates a public nuisance.

B. The council finds that it is in the best interest of public health, safety and welfare to restrict the display of reading material with sexually explicit covers and to adopt the regulations set out in this chapter so that the adverse impacts of such material on children and the community as a whole will be kept to a minimum. (Ord. 89-5 § 1, 1989)