[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Caledonia 5-18-1993
as L.L. No. 2-1993 (Ch. 80 of the 1981 Code). Amendments
noted where applicable.]
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Public Exposure
Law of the Village of Caledonia, New York."
A.
The intent of this chapter is to regulate the public
exposure of portions of the human body in public places within the Village
of Caledonia. It is the finding and the opinion of the Board of Trustees of
the Village of Caledonia and the community-at-large that display of one or
more portions of the human body ordinarily or customarily covered or clothed
when in a public place, including the genitalia and the portion of the female
breast that is below the top of the areola, is not a practice common or generally
acceptable to the community or the average residents of the Village of Caledonia.
B.
The Board of Trustees further notes that the Village
of Caledonia is almost exclusively residential in nature, with a small commercial
use zoning district surrounded by residential properties and several nonconforming
commercial use buildings or structures, predating zoning and interspersed
among residential properties. It is further recognized that a majority of
commercial buildings contain one or more residential apartment units.
C.
The Board of Trustees enacts this chapter for the purpose
of protecting and maintaining the neighborhood character and the peaceful,
residential nature of the village and its neighborhoods and to prevent or
limit additional parking demands that cannot be met on site and traffic or
similar congestion and noise and nuisance often accompanying organized and
deliberate displays or showings of public exposure.
As used in the chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
The deliberate or intentional uncovered or exposed display of one
or more portions of the human body ordinarily or customarily covered or clothed
when in a public place, including the genitalia and the portion of the female
breast that is below the top of the areola.
The Village of Caledonia, New York.
For purposes of this chapter only, the term "person" is defined as
a male or female of an age sufficient to understand the inappropriate display
of parts of the human body and of an age when such display is voluntarily
regulated by said person.
A place to which the public or a substantial group of persons have
access or where persons routinely or normally gather, including but not limited
to places of amusement, dance halls, restaurants, bars, taverns, lounges,
discotheques and lobbies or other portions of hotels or apartments not constituting
rooms or apartments designed for actual residence.
A.
Within 400 feet of any dwelling or residence, it shall
be unlawful for any person, whether or not such person is entertaining or
performing in a dance, play, exhibition, show or entertainment, to deliberately
expose or display without opaque covering in any bar, restaurant, tavern,
place of amusement or public place within the Village of Caledonia, in the
presence of the public or of patrons of such establishments, any portion of
the human body ordinarily or customarily covered or clothed when in a public
area, particularly the genitalia and that portion of the female breast that
is below the top of the areola.
B.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the incidental exposure
of all or part of the female breast concurrently with the breast-feeding of
an infant child by that person shall not be prohibited by this chapter.
It shall be unlawful for any person, business entity or corporation
conducting a public meeting or public assembly or maintaining or operating
a bar, restaurant, tavern, place of amusement, discotheque or any public place
within the Village of Caledonia to knowingly permit, allow or promote the
bodily exposure of any waiter or waitress, barmaid, entertainer or other person
who appears before the public or patrons of such establishment, whether or
not such person is entertaining or performing in a dance, play, exhibition,
show or entertaining, so as to display the portion of the exposed female breast
below the top of areola or the genitalia.
A.
Any person, firm or corporation found to be violating
any provision of this chapter shall be guilty of a violation and, upon conviction
thereof, shall be fined in the amount not to exceed $250 or imprisoned for
a period not to exceed 15 days, or both.
B.
A separate offense shall be construed as each event of
such unclothed or uncovered bodily exposure separated by a measurable lapse
of time of at least five minutes, such that, for example, two showings in
a single day shall constitute two separate offenses.
