24.01.170 ENFORCEMENT

A. Enforcement by City Officials

The City Council, the Planning Commission, the City Attorney, the City Manager, the Police Chief, the Building Official, the Planning Director, , the City Clerk, and all. officials charged with the issuance of licenses. or permits, shal] enforce the provisions of this Ordinance. Any permit, certificate, or license issued in conflict with the provisions of this Ordinance shall be void.

B. Actions Deemed a Nuisance

Any building or structure erected hereafter, or any use of property contrary to the provisions of a duly approved Site Plan Review, Variance, Conditionalts Use Permit, and/or this Ordinance shall be and the same hereby declared to be unlawful and a public nuisance per se and subject to abatement in accordance with local Ordinance.

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C. Remedies

All_ remedies concerning this Ordinance shall be cumulative and not exclusive. The conviction and punishment of any person hereunder shall not relieve such persons from the responsibility of correcting prohibited conditions or removing prohibited buildings, structures, signs, or improvements, and shall not prevent the enforced correction or removal thereof.

D. Penalties

Any person, partnership, organization, firm or corporation, whether as principal, agent, employee or otherwise, violating any provisions of this Ordinance or violating or failing to comply with any order to regulation made hereunder, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punishable as provided by local ordinance.

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a ACCESSORY USE shal] mean a use incidental, related, appropriate and clearly NS subordinate to the main use of the lot or building, which accessory use 0 | does not alter the principal use of such lot or building. | ADULT ARCADE: See Adult Motion Picture Arcade. . | ADULT BOOKSTORE shall mean an establishment that devotes more than fifteen : (15) percent of the total floor area utilized for the display of books and

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ABUT shall mean two adjoining parcels of property with a common property line, including two or more Tots adjoining only at a corner, except where such common property line is located in a public street right-of-way.

ACCESS OR ACCESS WAY shall mean the place, means, or way by which pedestrians and vehicles shall have safe, adequate and usable ingress and egress to a property or use as required by this Ordinance. ACCESSORY BUILDING shall mean a building, part of a building, or structure, which is incidental or subordinate to the main building or use on the same building site. ACCESSORY LIVING QUARTERS shall mean a living quarters on the same building site as a dwelling, designed or used for housing servants, guests or family members, having no cooking facilities or kitchen and not rented or otherwise used as a separate dwelling.

ADULT BOOKSTORE shall mean an establishment that devotes more than fifteen (15) percent of the total floor area utilized for the display of books and ' periodicals to the display and sale of the following: Books, magazines, periodicals, or other printed matter, or photographs, films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides, tapes, records, or other-forms of visual or audio representations which are characterized by an emphasis upon the depiction or description of specified sexual activities or Specified anatomical instruments, devices or paraphernalia which are designed for use in connection with specified sexual activities.

ADULT BOOKSTORE (continued) An adult bookstore does not include an establishment that sells books or periodicals as an incidental or accessory part of its principal stock-in-trade and does not devote more than fifteen (15) percent of the total floor area of the establishment to the sale of books and periodicals.

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