The purpose of this article is to establish reasonable and uniform regulations that will protect the health, safety and general welfare of the people of the City of Gloversville. The provisions of this article acting along or together with other applicable chapters of the Code of the City of Gloversville have neither the purpose nor effect of imposing a limitation or restriction on the content of communicative materials, including adult material. Similarly, it is not the intent nor effect of this chapter to restrict or deny access by adults to adult materials or expressions protected by the First Amendment or to deny access by distributors and exhibitors of adult uses to their intended market. However, the City of Gloversville Common Council feels that it is necessary to regulate the establishment of such adult entertainment businesses within close proximity to residentially zoned areas, schools and churches in order to eliminate the potential adverse impact these types of businesses could potentially have upon surrounding neighborhoods.
A. 
No adult entertainment business as defined in § 300-3 of this chapter shall be established within the Downtown Urban Core Overlay District, within 200 feet of a residential zone, or 500 feet of any church, school or licensed day-care facility.
B. 
For the purpose of this section, measurements shall be made in a straight line, without regard to the intervening structures or objects, from the nearest portion of the building or structure used as part of the premises for an adult entertainment business to the nearest property line of a residentially zoned area, church or school.
C. 
The hours of operation for any adult entertainment business shall be limited to 12:00 noon to 2:00 a.m.
D. 
It shall be a violation of this chapter for an operator of an adult entertainment business, regardless of whether it is licensed under this chapter, to advertise the presentation of any activity prohibited by any applicable state statute or this chapter.
E. 
The owner/operator of any adult entertainment business must opaquely cover each no opaque area through which a person outside the establishment may otherwise see inside the establishment. All activities of adult uses involving either the display of anatomical areas of sexual activities at an adult entertainment business as defined in § 300-3 of this chapter must be inside the establishment and not visible to a person outside the establishment.
F. 
No adult entertainment business shall be conducted in any manner that permits the observation of any material depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas from any public way or from any property not registered as an adult entertainment business. This provision shall apply to any display, decoration, sign, show window, screen or other opening.