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REPORT
GENERAL PURPOSE AND ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE Meeting: File## 3
Date:
MARCH 3, 1997 ReS. # ZPA -9'g i- -7
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Subject: ADULT ENTERTAINMENT PARLOURS - LAP DANCING
Recommendations:
It is respectfully recommended that the General Purpose and Administration
Committee recommend to Council the following:
1. THAT Report CD-12-97 be received;
2. THAT the by-law attached to Report CD-12-97 be forwarded to Council for
approval; and
3. THAT Katharine Goldberg, the Castle Hotel, and the Tanglewood be advised of
Council's decision and forwarded a copy of the by-law.
BACKGROUND AND COMMENT:
During consideration of correspondence received from Katharine Goldberg,
Association for Burlesque Entertainers, a resolution was passed instructing staff to
prepare a by-law prohibiting lap dancing within the Municipality of Clarington.
Accordingly, the attached by-law has been prepared and it is recommended that the
by-law be forwarded to Council for passage.
Respectfully submitted Reviewed by
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Patti L arrle, VI.C.T W.H. Stockwell
Cl Chief Administrative Officer
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THIS IS GRIMEDQ REGV DPAPER
ATTACHMENT TO REPORT CD-12-97
THE CORPORATION OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF CLARINGTON
BY-LAW 97-
being a by-law respecting Adult Entertainment Parlours
WHEREAS the Council of the Corporation of the Municipality of Clarington has, pursuant
to the provisions of the municipal Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.M.45, Section 225 authority to pass
by-laws for regulating adult entertainment parlours;
AND WHEREAS it is deemed desirable to provide for the regulating of adult
entertainment parlours;
NOW THEREFORE the Council of the Corporation of the Municipality of Clarington
enacts as follows:
1. For the purposes of this by-law:
(a) "Adult Entertainment Parlour" means any premises of part thereof in which
is provided services appealing to or designed to appeal to erotic or sexual
appetites or inclinations
(b) "attendant" means any person other than an owner or operator who
provides services designed to appeal to erotic or sexual appetites or
inclinations at an adult entertainment parlour
(c) "services designed to appeal to erotic or sexual appetites or inclinations"
includes:
(i) services of which a principal feature or characteristic is the nudity or
partial nudity of any person
(ii) services in respect of which the word "nude", "naked", "topless",
bottomless", "sexy", or any other word or any other picture, symbol
or representation having like meaning or implication is used in any
advertisement
(d) "to provide" when used in relation to services includes to furnish, perform,
solicit, or give such services and "providing" and "provision" have
corresponding meanings
2. No owner or operator shall, in respect of any adult entertainment parlour owned
or operated by him, knowingly permit any attendant, while providing services as
an attendant, to touch, or be touched by, or have physical contact with, any other
person in any manner whatsoever involving any part of that person's body.
3. No attendant shall, while providing services as an attendant, touch or have
physical contact with any other person in any manner whatsoever involving any
part of that person's body.
4. No patron shall, while attending the facilities of an Adult Entertainment Parlour,
touch any part of an attendant's body during the course of an entertainment
service.
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4. No attendant shall provide or perform any services as an attendant in an adult
entertainment parlour except while within the plain and unobstructed view of the
main stage on any floor of the premises.
5. Every person who contravenes any provision of this by-law is guilty of an offence
and liable to a fine on conviction as provided in the Provincial Offences Act,
R.S.O. 1990.
6. This by-law shall come into force and effect on the date of final passage.
By-law read a first and second time this 10th day of March 1997.
By-law read a third time and finally passed this 10th day of March 1997.
Mayor
Clerk
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